Re: DMA memory (2.0.30)

Marc Lehmann (pcg@goof.com)
Wed, 18 Feb 1998 02:13:05 +0100

>The rather trivial "swapout" program from ftape does this, and in my
>case, it mostly really works. (It just malloc()s 10 MB, writes into
>each page, exits.)

Actually, I never understood the neccissity for such a program, dd performs
quite well doing the same operation (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/zero
bs=1024x1024x8 count=1)

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