Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Aug 2000 15:17:18 +0100 (BST) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | Re: linux-2.4.0-test5 slowed down unusable with OOM |
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please insert the code which sets RLIMIT_AS which lowers the limits for your process and try again.
it seems this week everyone is trying to write a little malloc(3) helloworld program to prove that Linux VM is wrong. It isn't. It is as perfect as any other part of the Linux kernel.
Regards, Tigran
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> this simple c app will make 2.4.0-test5 such slow, > it's unusable. i saw some progress in the xterm running this app, > but it was not possible to do anything else (like ctr-alt-f1 or > ctrl-alt-del, mouse and keyboard strokes also had no effekt). > ping to the box worked still. > > it might be nice to kill the app much sooner, > instead of swapping for hours. > > regards, andreas > > #include <malloc.h> > #include <stdio.h> > > void main() > { > int *mem; > long int i; > long int x; > x=1; > while (1) { > x++; > printf("%ld MB ... ",x); > fflush(stdout); > mem=malloc(1024*1024*x); > for (i=0; i<x*1024*1024/sizeof(int); i=i+64) > { > mem[i]=0; > > } > free(mem); > } > } > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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