On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 02:32:32AM +0200, ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 12:51:32AM +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> > it works perfect at least on my Olli. If you don't have a spare partition
> > you can use a swapfile.
>
> Can you say diskless?
yes it's spelled NBD (network block device).
But before telling me that the current behaviour isn't good for diskless
machines, go and fix it. I'm no longer convinced that it's a generic
Linux problem. The Intel machine, where I did the test first, doesn't
show the problem anymore. My Alpha doesn't do it and my P5 SMP system works
as expected. And now the big news, it doesn't happen on the Olli:
[root@mips /root]# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 30340 6068 24272 6248 964 1952
-/+ buffers/cache: 3152 27188
Swap: 0 0 0
[root@mips /root]# ./xx
failed to allocate 512 bytes (23890432 bytes already allocated)
spinning ...
It only happens on the Indy:
[root@indy /root]# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 60448 11676 48772 9308 772 6580
-/+ buffers/cache: 4324 56124
Swap: 0 0 0
[root@indy /root]# ./xx
failed to allocate 512 bytes (40519680 bytes already allocated)
spinning ...
On all other platforms I get about the memory (minus some kbytes), what was
free at the time I started the test.
Thomas.
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This device has completely bogus header. Compaq scores again :-|
It's a host bridge, but it should be called ghost bridge instead ;^)
[Martin `MJ' Mares on linux-kernel]
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