Re: AMD64 Machine hardlocks when using memset

From: Robert Hancock (hancockr_at_shaw.ca)
Date: 03/31/05

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    Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
    > You want to allocate a lot of memory (16 GB), you don't have that much
    > space, so the Kernel hangs.

    No, this is not what it is doing. The program is simply wiping the same
    1MB block of memory over and over. If it was doing what you say it would
    not (or should not) lock the machine anyway. 

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