Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 01 Jul 1999 01:49:32 -0400 | From | nads@bleh ... | Subject | hard locks on large/looped memory allocations |
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Hi,
2.2.x has for the most part been rock stable for me, however there is one persisting problem which really still seems to lock it up for me. Whenever a large memory allocation occurs, the system seems to just lock up during that period and become completely unresponsive. Just a few minutes ago, I had a program which basically went intoa while (1) { mallloc(1024) } loop. At the time of this, I had about 150 megs of ram free (between swap and physical) and still, the system became completely unresponsive and I had to hit the power button. The last refresh of wmmon showed abuot 50% of the swap free. So its not like there was no ram left. Also, whats wierder is, ip masquerading still worked without a hitch, so I'm not sure exactly what is going on.
The system is a Celeron 333a with 96 megs of physical ram and 256 megs of swap.
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