Andrew Morton wrote:
> We have a candidate fix at
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc5/2.6.16-rc5-mm2/broken-out/x86_64-mm-blk-bounce.patch.
>  Could you test that?  (and don't alter the Cc: list!).  The patch is
> against 2.6.16-rc5.

Testing that kernel now, with good news: the machine has been apparently
stable, running Gaussian processes for the last 20 hours, with no
oom-killer messages.

A new "feature": 36 of these kernel message pairs as boot time:
  device-mapper: dm-linear: Device lookup failed
  device-mapper: error adding target to table

Many thanks and best regards
                              J Esteves

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