Re: PROBLEM: RAMDISK larger than 778000 KB halts system

2001-02-11 Thread Ole Tange
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Pavel Machek wrote: > > [1.] One line summary of the problem: > > Running badblocks on a ramdisk larger than 778000 KB halts > > system > > Is it really bug? That is simply a matter of definition. If the system does as you expect, then you will probably not regard it a

Re: PROBLEM: RAMDISK larger than 778000 KB halts system

2001-02-11 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > [1.] One line summary of the problem: > Running badblocks on a ramdisk larger than 778000 KB halts > system Is it really bug? You have 778000 KB of low ram, right? (That's the way himem patches work, IIRC). You have used all of it. You've run out of memory. It might be pretty non-t

PROBLEM: RAMDISK larger than 778000 KB halts system

2001-02-03 Thread Ole Tange
[1.] One line summary of the problem: Running badblocks on a ramdisk larger than 778000 KB halts system [2.] Full description of the problem/report: I have setup a ramdisk of 1 GB. When I run badblocks on the RAMdisk, it halts the total system when reaching app. 778000 KB I