Hi, With 4G memory available on the system x machine Memory: 3975224k/4980736k available (3764k kernel code, 787208k absent, 218304k reserved, 5318k data, 1272k init) and by using the attached config file on the kernel versions 2.6.36-rc1 and 2.6.36-rc2 - getting the following panic call trace while running libhugetlbfs autotest mls21b login: -- 0:conmux-control -- time-stamp -- Aug/21/10 19:52:48 -- -- 0:conmux-control -- time-stamp -- Aug/21/10 20:01:24 -- Kernel panic - not syncing: Out of memory and no killable processes... Pid: 24576, comm: mmap-cow Not tainted 2.6.36-rc1-git4-autotest #1 Call Trace: [] panic+0x8c/0x196 [] out_of_memory+0x2e8/0x375 [] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x556/0x6ac [] alloc_page_vma+0x16d/0x18c [] do_wp_page+0x384/0x745 [] ? __do_fault+0x412/0x449 [] handle_mm_fault+0x959/0x9c2 [] do_page_fault+0x38e/0x3b2 [] ? do_mmap_pgoff+0x290/0x2f3 [] ? sys_mmap_pgoff+0x114/0x126 [] page_fault+0x1f/0x30 -- 0:conmux-control -- time-stamp -- Aug/21/10 20:03:24 -- -- 0:conmux-control -- time-stamp -- Aug/21/10 20:11:57 -- (bot:conmon-payload) disconnected Thanks Divya