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From: Frederik Deweerdt <deweerdt@free.fr>
Subject: Re: 2.6.26-rc5-mm2: OOM with 1G free swap
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:31:01 +0200
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To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-testers@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 03:36:40PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > > vm.overcommit_memory = 0
> > > vm.overcommit_ratio = 50
> > 
> > Well I assume that Rik ran LTP.  Perhaps a merge problem.
> 
> at least, I ran LTP last week and its error didn't happend.
> I'll investigate more.
FWIW, I can reproduce it reliably:
$ cd <ltp-dir>/testcases/bin
$ ./growfiles -W gf15 -b -e 1 -u -r 1-49600 -I r -u -i 0 -L 120 Lgfile1
And then wait for a few secs before the OOM triggers.

Regards,
Frederik