From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261964AbVCaEcu (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:32:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261975AbVCaEcu (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:32:50 -0500 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:22826 "EHLO pd4mo2so.prod.shaw.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261964AbVCaEcs (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:32:48 -0500 Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:32:47 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: AMD64 Machine hardlocks when using memset In-reply-to: <3NVqb-1iK-33@gated-at.bofh.it> To: linux-kernel Message-id: <424B7D6F.7080601@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <3NTHD-8ih-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <3NVqb-1iK-33@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/