[Haifux] Oops your system with plain malloc()

2012-05-17 Thread Eli Billauer
Hi all, I just wrote a post in my blog about Linux (2.6.35 on x86_64) oopsing and hanging when allocating huge amounts of RAM. There are a couple of plain C programs in the post that did the job pretty well. You may want to try them yourselves. Or maybe suggest reasons why this happens at

Re: [Haifux] Oops your system with plain malloc()

2012-05-17 Thread Eli Billauer
On 05/17/2012 08:56 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: Oh wait! You're using kernel-2.6.35.4 - not kernel 3.5.x (which does not exist yet). That's a really old version. Is it an up-to-date distribution kernel? If so - you can report it to your distributor. If not - you should upgrade. Of course I should

Re: [Haifux] Oops your system with plain malloc()

2012-05-17 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Eli, On Thu, 17 May 2012 20:48:59 +0300 Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: Hi Eli, On Thu, 17 May 2012 19:34:12 +0300 Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il wrote: Hi all, I just wrote a post in my blog about Linux (2.6.35 on x86_64) oopsing and hanging when allocating huge

Re: [Haifux] Oops your system with plain malloc()

2012-05-17 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Eli, On Thu, 17 May 2012 19:34:12 +0300 Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il wrote: Hi all, I just wrote a post in my blog about Linux (2.6.35 on x86_64) oopsing and hanging when allocating huge amounts of RAM. There are a couple of plain C programs in the post that did the job pretty

Re: [Haifux] Oops your system with plain malloc()

2012-05-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 09:31:16PM +0300, Eli Billauer wrote: On 05/17/2012 08:56 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: Oh wait! You're using kernel-2.6.35.4 - not kernel 3.5.x (which does not exist yet). That's a really old version. Is it an up-to-date distribution kernel? If so - you can report it to

Re: [Haifux] Oops your system with plain malloc()

2012-05-17 Thread Eli Billauer
On 05/17/2012 10:23 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: I may consider upgrading to a kernel 2.6.35 which has gone through a long phase of "bug fixes only" but I understand there is no such around at the moment. What I call a vintage kernel. You obviously have a beefy system with