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From: Andrew Brink <abrink@ns.brink.cx>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 17:36:47 -0600
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Getting Out of Memory errors at random intervals.
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On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 11:45:42PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Run something that has a sane VM in all the known awkward cases (eg the Red Hat
> 2.4.9 tree) and you should be just fine. If not I'd be interested to know

I take it the vanilla 2.4.9 would also do?

> 
> For the newer trees I can only get stability under high loads with either the
> Andrea -aa vm patches or Rik's rmap-11b patch. Both of which seem to help
> no end.

As for High loads....these boxes don't even get a load.

Andrew