[Haifux] Oops your system with plain malloc()

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Eli,

On Thu, 17 May 2012 19:34:12 +0300
Eli Billauer <eli at 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 well. You may want 
> to try them yourselves. Or maybe suggest reasons why this happens at all.
> 
> This is not an issue for me right now, because no real program does what 
> those test snippets do. And still, there's something worrying about 
> being able to crash the computer completely that easily.
> 
> http://billauer.co.il/blog/?p=2837
> 

Thanks for the interesting post. On my system (specs below) with 8GB of RAM and
kernel "Linux telaviv1.shlomifish.org 3.3.6-desktop-1.mga2 #1 SMP Sat May 12
20:01:24 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux" memeater does not cause the system to crash. 
In fact, everything appears to be fine after running memeater. I'll try it with a vanilla 3.5.x
kernel next and report it here.

Here are my specs:

    An Intel Core i3 CPU (x86-64).
    8 GB of RAM.
    Intel Corporation Sandy Bridge Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
    A 2 TB hard-disk.
    A 19״ LCD Screen by ViewSonic.
    Intel Corporation Cougar Point High Definition Audio Controller.
    Intel Corporation 82579V Gigabit Network Connection.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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