Re: DMA memory (2.0.30)

Linux-Kernel Mail Account (kernel@whitestar.soark.net)
Thu, 19 Feb 1998 12:36:48 -0500 (EST)


The ability to hold the memory for ammounts of time for testing..

Zephaniah E, Hull

On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Marc Lehmann wrote:

> >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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