Large Ramdisk creation causes crashes

[Brandon Ooi]

Hi Andy,

I performed the test without a filesystem with the same crashy results. 
It's only when the ramdisk fills do I see problems (with or without a 
filesystem). I've tried other filesystems as well (ext3, reiserfs). I 
have also removed the raid from the tests as it seems like that is not 
part of the problem.

I'm still kind of stumped so if you have any ideas feel free to tell me :)

Thanks!

Brandon

Andy Green wrote:

>Brandon Ooi wrote:
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>>The real problem I'm seeing is that as the ramdisk fills and there is
>>obviously memory free, the machine crashes. I did this on a local
>>machine rather than a remote one and the message that appears on the
>>console is an "Out of Memory" error.
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>Please consider to run the test without a filesystem I suggested
>earlier.  There's no point piling an ext2 filesystem and then raid on
>top of what may be a machine-freezing substrate.
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>-Andy
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