My tmp fs and memory states before running the experiment are below. Now if I do the following under /tmp/
dd if=/dev/zero of=largefile.txt bs=128k count=90000 I have a vmstat window open, around the time when memory reaches around 50MB the system totally locks up caps lock takes 7 seconds to respond cursor totally stops and the rest of the system is frozen vmstat stops updating. This releases itself only after the file is created. Should I file a bug or is this a known issue. CPU: i7 920 Memory: 12GB RAM OS: SunOS ht 5.11 snv_111b i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris (OSOL 2009.06) ==================================================== BEFORE EXPERIMENT ==================================================== /tmp/trialdata $ vmstat 2 2 kthr memory page disk faults cpu r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr s0 s1 s2 s3 in sy cs us sy id 0 0 27 59175124 8566800 87 690 3 349 398 0 24206 -1 -1 -1 -1 2646 22242 4247 2 1 97 1 0 90 61141244 10561412 8 36 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 941 4990 668 0 0 100 /tmp/trialdata $ swap -sh total: 740M allocated + 167M reserved = 908M used, 58G available /tmp/trialdata $ df -h /tmp Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on swap 59G 28K 59G 1% /tmp ==================================================== -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org
