> Anon wrote: > > What is a good way to stress test a loop-AES file-backed loop to see if I > > can make it fail? > > Try lots of writing to the file backed loop file system: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/mountpoint/foo bs=1024k > > If that doesn't trigger it, then start some fatware programs (openoffice + > mozilla) that eat lots of RAM, and then try again. > > Deadlocks may happen when kernel is running out of free RAM, and kernel > memory allocation routines attempts to flush dirty RAM pages to backing > store. > > -- > Jari Ruusu 1024R/3A220F51 5B 4B F9 BB D3 3F 52 E9 DB 1D EB E3 24 0E A9 DD Excellent! Thank you for the suggestion! :) Anon - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
