Re: Possible bug in malloc-code

From: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw_at_withagen.nl>
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 09:39:10 +0200
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kris Kennaway" <kris_at_obsecurity.org>
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 02:17:57AM +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:

> > The bad thing is that calling free() at this point will freeze the box....
> 
> amd64 seems to have a bug that causes it to pause while accessing
> swap.  Make sure this isn't what you're seeing - i.e. wait a few
> minutes before hitting the reset button.

Interesting point.
I'll run the box and go to the gym...
That should give it enough time to recover.

And we'll see.

I'did see such behaviour, but that was more like stalling for a 
1-2 sec period, Which I atributed to zeroing 500Mb of RAM.

--WjW
Received on Thu May 27 2004 - 22:43:29 UTC

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