Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Sep 2004 18:23:10 +1000 (EST) | From | Sergei Haller <> | Subject | Re: lost memory on a 4GB amd64 |
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On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Andrew Walrond (AW) wrote:
AW> On Monday 20 Sep 2004 11:26, Sergei Haller wrote: AW> > AW> > fang ~sergei> ./memtest 1000000000 AW> > allocate 1000000000: ok AW> > AW> > Message from syslogd@fang at Mon Sep 20 18:03:16 2004 ... AW> > fang kernel: Oops: 0000 [1] PREEMPT SMP AW> > AW> AW> Works fine on my 4Gb Tyan thunder K8W machine, even running from an xterm: AW> andrew@orac ~ $ uname -a AW> Linux orac.walrond.org 2.6.8.1 #3 SMP Sun Aug 29 17:36:49 BST 2004 x86_64 AW> unknown unknown GNU/Linux AW> AW> andrew@orac ~ $ free -m AW> total used free shared buffers cached AW> Mem: 4008 263 3744 0 0 66 AW> -/+ buffers/cache: 195 3812 AW> Swap: 3827 25 3802 AW> AW> andrew@orac ~ $ ./memtest 1000000000 AW> allocate 1000000000: ok AW> set them to 0... done AW> andrew@orac ~ $ ./memtest 4000000000 AW> allocate 4000000000: ok AW> set them to 0... done AW> andrew@orac ~ $ ./memtest 5000000000 AW> allocate 5000000000: ok AW> set them to 0... done AW> andrew@orac ~ $ AW> AW> The last one took a while (using 1Gb swap) but it still worked fine.
Hi Andrew,
thanks for your report.
It's the same for me if I use the non-SMP version of the kernel. but the SMP one seems to be panicking for some reason.
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