strange messages on 1.3.68, maybe others?

Michael Stiller (michael@toyland.ping.de)
Fri, 23 Feb 1996 00:00:59 +0100


Howdy hackers,

i played with the following code on 1.3.68:

#include <stdlib.h>
main()
{
while(1) {
fork();
malloc(1024);
}
}
and while it was running i pressed shift-scroll-lock(meminfo) several times.
I got the following messages:

Feb 22 23:30:15 toyland kernel: Mem-info:
Feb 22 23:30:15 toyland kernel: Free pages: 320kB
Feb 22 23:30:15 toyland kernel: ( 0*4kB
Feb 22 23:31:19 toyland b
Feb 22 23:31:20 toyland @o^\
Feb 22 23:31:31 toyland @pz^G@ -^E^H -^E^H^B
Feb 22 23:31:34 toyland ^B^B
Feb 22 23:31:40 toyland 0*8kB 0*16kB 2*32kB 0*64kB 2*128kB = 320kB)
Feb 22 23:30:15 toyland kernel: Swap cache: add 682/682, delete 1272848/523,
find 17991/12
Feb 22 23:30:15 toyland kernel: Free swap: 34284kB
....
Feb 22 23:30:15 toyland kernel: ( 1*4kB 0*8kB 0*16kB 2*32kB 0*64kB 2*128kB =
324kB)
Feb 22 23:30:15 toyland kernel: Swap cache: add 683/683, delete 1273066/523,
find 17991/12
Feb 22 23:30:15 toyland kernel: Free swap: 34108kB
Feb 22 23:32:24 toyland Feb 2
Feb 22 23:32:25 toyland b
Feb 22 23:32:25 toyland @o^\
Feb 22 23:32:25 toyland @pz^G@ -^E^H -^E^H^B
Feb 22 23:32:25 toyland ^B^B
Feb 22 23:32:25 toyland 2 23:30:15 kernel: 10240 pages of RAM
Feb 22 23:30:15 toyland kernel: 103 free pages
Feb 22 23:30:15 toyland kernel: 444 reserved pages

After that i issued 'exec halt' on the console
and got AFTER "System halted":

"Hmm.. Trying to use unallocated swap...."
and something other (printed only on console, i don't remember now)

-Michael

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