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From: Robert David <robert.david.public@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Konstantinos Agouros <elwood@×××××××.de>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System cold crashing when too much memory is used?
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 22:13:38
Message-Id: 201210212242.29247.robert.david.public@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] System cold crashing when too much memory is used? by Konstantinos Agouros
1 Hi,
2
3 what rebooted Dom0 or DomU? Have you some special need to run kernel 3.4.9,
4 try 3.0.35, I dont have any issue on server with 3.0.x.
5
6 Other thing, try to disable swap and run the script. Could be disk problem or
7 bus/controller problem when copying pages from swap.
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10 Robert.
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14 On Friday 19 of October 2012 18:45:32 Konstantinos Agouros wrote:
15 > hi,
16 >
17 > I am running a Xen host with gentoo sources 3.4.9. I've had issues
18 > that the box cold reboots on me and suspected memory use. Today I
19 > ran the following little perl script:
20 >
21 > my $a = "a" x 1000;
22 > $b = $a x 1000;
23 >
24 > while(1)
25 > {
26 > $b .= $b;
27 > }
28 >
29 > 2 Minutes about 2G swapped out (Dom0 has about 6GB of ram and lots of swap)
30 > and boom cold boot. No panic message on the screen before.
31 >
32 > Anybody has an idea what might be causing this?
33 >
34 > During on of these episodes I ran memtest86 on the box without error.
35 >
36 > CPU is an AMD Phenom 6core.
37 >
38 > Regards,
39 >
40 > Konstantin