From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: 2.6.20-rc5: cp 18gb 18gb.2 = OOM killer, reproducible just like 2.16.19.2 Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:32:42 +0100 Message-ID: <20070125003242.GA23343@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20070122133735.GB4493@ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Justin Piszcz Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com List-Id: linux-raid.ids Hi! > > Is it highmem-related? Can you try it with mem=256M? > > Bad idea, the kernel crashes & burns when I use mem=256, I had to boot > 2.6.20-rc5-6 single to get back into my machine, very nasty. Remember I > use an onboard graphics controller that has 128MB of RAM allocated to it > and I believe the ICH8 chipset also uses some memory, in any event mem=256 > causes the machine to lockup before it can even get to the boot/init > processes, the two leds on the keyboard were blinking, caps lock and > scroll lock and I saw no console at all! Okay, so try mem=700M or disable CONFIG_HIGHMEM or something. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html