From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 05:42:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 05:42:03 -0500 Received: from [194.213.32.137] ([194.213.32.137]:4100 "EHLO bug.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 05:41:52 -0500 Message-ID: <20010210222450.A7877@bug.ucw.cz> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 22:24:50 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Ole Tange , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PROBLEM: RAMDISK larger than 778000 KB halts system In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: ; from Ole Tange on Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 03:29:10PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > [1.] One line summary of the problem: > Running badblocks on a ramdisk larger than 778000 KB halts > system Is it really bug? You have 778000 KB of low ram, right? (That's the way himem patches work, IIRC). You have used all of it. You've run out of memory. It might be pretty non-trivial to fix this. Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/