On Wednesday 24 January 2007 07:54, Michael van Elst wrote:
> bouyer@antioche.eu.org (Manuel Bouyer) writes:
> >the character device, it talks directly to the driver. I guess using
> >vnd0a you fill up the buffer cache quickly, and the system crawls because
> >it has no free memory.
>
> The system deadlocks because it has no free buffers (but possibly
> still tons of free memory).

Yeah, that's what I figured Manuel was was referring to ... buffer memory ... 
not system memory.

Thanks for clarifying though.

Sarton