Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So now the question becomes "what is he testing that is
> resulting in 4.3 locking up?".
Good question. It does some non-trivial stuff besides allocating:
buffered I/O and fork()/exec()'ing sync(1).
> Your suggested replacement test might be fun to run, but I
> think it wouldn't lock up 4.3...
Nope. But the attached - much nastier - program did trash my -CURRENT
box when run as root in an xterm. What happened was that the X server
faulted and died, rendering the console unusable; the serial console
filled up with getswapspace() errors, so the only recourse was a break
to DDB followed by 'call boot', which managed to sync all filesystems
except the root, but failed to actually reboot the machine.
I would *love* to have a DDB equivalent to 'kill -9', so I could drop
to the DDB prompt, check ps, kill a process or two, and drop back out
of DDB. It would have saved me a reboot and a longish fsck in this
case.
A second try, on the text console and as a regular user, got to 643 MB
before it, top(1) and an xterm were killed. This is a 5.0-CURRENT
system with 192 MB RAM and 512 MB swap, so 643 MB is pretty close to
max capacity.
DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#define CHUNKSIZE 1048576
#define CHUNKS 4096
int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int i, j, n, ps;
char *p;
n = (argc > 1) ? atoi(argv[1]) : CHUNKS;
ps = getpagesize();
for (i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
if ((p = mmap(NULL, CHUNKSIZE, PROT_WRITE, MAP_ANON, -1, 0)) == NULL) {
write(1, "\n:(\n", 4);
exit(1);
}
write(1, ".", 1);
for (j = 0; j < CHUNKSIZE; j += ps)
p[j] = 1;
}
write(1, "\n:)\n", 4);
read(0, p, 1);
exit(0);
}
