From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: AMD64 Machine hardlocks when using memset
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:32:47 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <424B7D6F.7080601@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3NVqb-1iK-33@gated-at.bofh.it>
Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
> You want to allocate a lot of memory (16 GB), you don't have that much
> space, so the Kernel hangs.
No, this is not what it is doing. The program is simply wiping the same
1MB block of memory over and over. If it was doing what you say it would
not (or should not) lock the machine anyway.
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[not found] ` <3NVqb-1iK-33@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-03-31 4:32 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2005-03-31 4:38 ` AMD64 Machine hardlocks when using memset Robert Hancock
2005-03-31 7:25 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-03-31 8:15 ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-31 9:37 ` Philip Lawatsch
2005-03-31 10:15 ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-31 7:41 ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-31 11:40 ` Mikael Pettersson
2005-03-31 18:47 ` Paul Jackson
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2005-04-01 4:37 ` Robert Hancock
2005-04-01 10:41 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-04-01 17:27 ` Ray Lee
2005-04-01 19:14 ` Philip Lawatsch
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2005-04-06 4:05 ` Robert Hancock
2005-04-06 7:02 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-04-06 9:31 ` Philip Lawatsch
2005-04-06 10:59 ` Philip Lawatsch
2005-04-06 11:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-04-06 11:22 ` Philip Lawatsch
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2005-04-01 1:33 ` Robert Hancock
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[not found] ` <3Oy8m-74-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-04-02 2:32 ` Robert Hancock
2005-04-02 4:11 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-02 4:50 ` Robert Hancock
2005-04-04 10:45 ` Alan Cox
2005-04-06 8:47 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-03-30 22:04 Philip Lawatsch
2005-03-31 0:05 ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-03-31 14:45 ` Stelian Pop
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