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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Machine becomes unresponsive when allocated large amounts of memory

  • Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Machine becomes unresponsive when allocated large amounts of memory
  • From: Adrian Irving-Beer <wisq-oclug [ at ] wisq [ dot ] net>
  • Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:48:15 -0500
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 07:55:16PM -0800, tiller man wrote:

> And thats where the problem is. It doesn't fail in the call to
> malloc()  or realloc(), it appears to continue running. However, the
> machine locks up at this point.
>
> (Well so it would seem, I am not sure if it still running the
> process at all, or just being extremely slow, as I only print out
> debugging information every 1000 allocations or so).
>
> Now, I currently access this machine(AMD64 with 1GB of memory I
> believe) through ssh, as it is not located directly at my workplace.

So presumably, you can't see the hard drive light?  Next time, ask
your restarter-person what it's doing.  My standard guess for
"system becomes unresponsive due to memory allocation" is that it's
thrashing the swap.

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