low-memory testing

[Jim Gettys]

Albert, can you please see that there are proper trac entries fro any
leaking applications?
                                 Thanks greatly,
                                           - Jim


On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 14:39 -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> Things tend to go bad in low-memory conditions. I'm trying to
> reproduce bug #4355, which I suspect to be DMA going to the
> wrong location when memory runs low. (please help) It is common
> for low-memory conditions to corrupt filesystems and databases.
> 
> A decent way to cause trouble is the Measure activity.
> It currently does both audio and video while leaking memory.
> 
> Other interesting activites include Record (xvideo), TamTam
> (audio out), and Journal (keeps a critical database). For some
> or all of these, alternate ways to leak memory are needed.
> Note that memory must be written to for it to matter.
> 
> Failure to find these problems now will lead to getting lots
> of seemingly unreproducable bug reports from deployment.
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Jim Gettys
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