On 8 Jan 1999 23:28:50 -0800, o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s
(david parsons) said:
>> Hmmm... This is my primary mail/dns/www/everything-on-the-net server, it
>> runs headless on another continent, so no netscape. Would running
>> something like memtest to grab a chunk of memory and then release it just
>> before the backup starts help?
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null count=2 bs=<size of memory - 1mb>
> might do the trick.
Not on 2.1/2.2 it won't; the read(2) from /dev/zero just zeromaps the
page range and doesn't consume any physical memory at all. :)
--Stephen
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