Hello to all, It routinely happens that the system freezes when a process uses too much memory and so consumes near all the memory in the system (eg. newer releases of Firefox or big compile sessions)
On this system, I can reproduce this scenario on demand. My system config: - Pentium 4 Northwood 2.0 Ghz - 512 MB Rambus memory - 20 GB hd, I'm using UFS by the way - DragonFly 3.5-DEVELOPMENT 20 April build (i386) Using stress (I installed it from dports) if I create a stress virtual memory job that eats all the system memory using a command like this: # stress --vm-bytes 600M -m 1 I can get the system to freeze! and it happens even if I use a 256MB swapfile and consume all the memory + the swap. Any insights?? It could be due to the 16MB reserve for DMA?? Anyhow, thanks for this great operating system :) _____________________________________________________________ Washington DC's Largest FREE Email service. ---> http://www.DCemail.com ---> A Washington Online Community Member ---> http://www.DCpages.com
