Re: File-backed loop stress testing

["Anon" <loop-aes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Anon wrote: 
> > What is a good way to stress test a loop-AES file-backed loop to see if I 
> > can make it fail? 
>  
> Try lots of writing to the file backed loop file system: 
>  
>     dd if=/dev/zero of=/mountpoint/foo bs=1024k 
>  
> If that doesn't trigger it, then start some fatware programs (openoffice + 
> mozilla) that eat lots of RAM, and then try again. 
>  
> Deadlocks may happen when kernel is running out of free RAM, and kernel 
> memory allocation routines attempts to flush dirty RAM pages to backing 
> store. 
>  
> --  
> Jari Ruusu  1024R/3A220F51 5B 4B F9 BB D3 3F 52 E9  DB 1D EB E3 24 0E A9 DD 
Excellent!  Thank you for the suggestion!  :) 
 
Anon 
 
  

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