From: Ben Smith <ben@google.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>,
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Google's mm problem - not reproduced on 2.4.13
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:55:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BE0AB8D.3040400@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0110312341030.2963-100000@imladris.surriel.com>
>>>*Just in case* it's oom-related I've asked Ben to try it with one less than
>>>the maximum number of memory blocks he can allocate.
>>>
>>I've run this test with my 3.5G machine, 3 blocks instead of 4 blocks,
>>and it has the same behavior (my app gets killed, 0-order allocation
>>failures, and the system stays up.
>>
>
> If you still have swap free at the point where the process
> gets killed, or if the memory is file-backed, then we are
> positive it's a kernel bug.
This machine is configured without a swap file. The memory is file backed,
though (read-only mmap, followed by a mlock).
- Ben
Ben Smith
Google, Inc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-01 1:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-31 18:06 Google's mm problem - not reproduced on 2.4.13 Daniel Phillips
2001-10-31 20:39 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-10-31 20:45 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-31 21:03 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-10-31 21:53 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-01 4:52 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-11-01 16:56 ` undefined reference in 2.2.19 build with Reiserfs (was: Google's mm problem - not reproduced on 2.4.13) Sven Heinicke
2001-11-01 22:39 ` Keith Owens
2001-10-31 22:12 ` Google's mm problem - not reproduced on 2.4.13 Ben Smith
2001-11-01 0:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-11-02 17:51 ` Sven Heinicke
2001-11-02 18:00 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-11-02 18:19 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-11-02 20:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-11-02 21:08 ` Ben Smith
2001-11-02 21:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-11-02 22:42 ` Ben Smith
2001-11-02 23:15 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-11-03 22:53 ` Adaptec vs Symbios performance Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-11-03 23:01 ` arjan
2001-11-02 21:12 ` Google's mm problem - not reproduced on 2.4.13 Rik van Riel
[not found] ` <200111022027.fA2KRwe20006@penguin.transmeta.com>
2001-11-02 20:58 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-11-02 18:11 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-11-02 18:48 ` Sven Heinicke
2001-11-02 18:57 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-11-01 0:19 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-11-01 0:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-11-01 1:17 ` Ben Smith
2001-11-01 1:41 ` Rik van Riel
2001-11-01 1:55 ` Ben Smith [this message]
2001-11-01 2:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-31 20:48 ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-31 21:04 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-10-31 21:08 ` Rik van Riel
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111021250560.20078-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
2001-11-02 21:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-11-02 21:27 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-11-03 0:16 ` Linus Torvalds
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