Messages in this thread | | | From | Andrew Walrond <> | Subject | Re: lost memory on a 4GB amd64 | Date | Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:15:34 +0100 |
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On Monday 20 Sep 2004 11:26, Sergei Haller wrote: > > fang ~sergei> ./memtest 1000000000 > allocate 1000000000: ok > > Message from syslogd@fang at Mon Sep 20 18:03:16 2004 ... > fang kernel: Oops: 0000 [1] PREEMPT SMP >
Works fine on my 4Gb Tyan thunder K8W machine, even running from an xterm: andrew@orac ~ $ uname -a Linux orac.walrond.org 2.6.8.1 #3 SMP Sun Aug 29 17:36:49 BST 2004 x86_64 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
andrew@orac ~ $ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 4008 263 3744 0 0 66 -/+ buffers/cache: 195 3812 Swap: 3827 25 3802
andrew@orac ~ $ ./memtest 1000000000 allocate 1000000000: ok set them to 0... done andrew@orac ~ $ ./memtest 4000000000 allocate 4000000000: ok set them to 0... done andrew@orac ~ $ ./memtest 5000000000 allocate 5000000000: ok set them to 0... done andrew@orac ~ $
The last one took a while (using 1Gb swap) but it still worked fine.
Without swap:
andrew@orac ~ $ sudo swapoff -a andrew@orac ~ $ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 4008 237 3770 0 1 54 -/+ buffers/cache: 181 3826 Swap: 0 0 0 andrew@orac ~ $ ./memtest 1000000000 allocate 1000000000: ok set them to 0... done andrew@orac ~ $ ./memtest 2000000000 allocate 2000000000: ok set them to 0... done andrew@orac ~ $
Still fine.
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