Re: Maybe a VM bug in 2.4.18-18 from RH 8.0?

[GrandMasterLee <masterlee@digitalroadkill.net>]

On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 00:55, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
[...]
> > and you're totally wrong saying that mlocking 700m on a 4G box
> > could kill it.
> 
> It is possible to mlock 700M of the normal zone on a 4G -aa kernel.
> I can't immediately think of anything apart from vma's which will
> make it fall over, but it will run like crap.


Just curious, but how long would it take a system with 8GB RAM, using 4G
or 64G kernel to fall over? One thing I've noticed, is that 2.4.19aa2
runs great on a box with 8GB when I don't allocate all that much, but
seems to run into issues after a large DB has been running on it for
several days. (i.e. the system get's generally a little slower, less
responsive, and in some cases crashes after 7 days). 

Yes, I know, sounds like a memory leak in something, but aside from
patching Oracle from 8.1.7.4(dba's can't find any new patches ATM), I've
tried everything except changing my kernel. 

Could this be similar behaviour?

--The GrandMaster