On 07/04/2006 Ruben Garcia wrote: > > here is a script which causes my system to crash with encrypted swap > > file, while it doesn't crash with encrypted swap partition: > > # perl -e ' <at> foo = (); push( <at> foo, "x"x1000) for (1..10**5); > > fork for (1..10**5); sleep 60' > > I'm going to be away next week. > I will add the encrypted swap partition again when I come back and run > your program. that would be great. please try it with encrypted swap file, with encrypted swap partition, and also with an unencrypted swap file/partition. > I'll post if I get it to crash. How long does it take? How much RAM do > you have? i've 512MB of RAM, and the file had 1GB Swap. The system didn't respond after 10 to 30 seconds. It's not a conventional crash, but more a freeze. X freezes completely if you run the script in a X terminal. If you run it on a virtual console, the console doesn't respond while keyboard action (typing) is still printed on the screen. The only way to get out of this situation is the reset/power button. > I have 1Gb ram and 1Gb swap. > I get the oopses after using arount 200Mb of the swap partition, using > freenet. what is freenet? i know only a german ISP that is called 'freenet' ;-) ... jonas
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