Re: Mem issues in 2.6.9 (ever since 2.6.9-rc3) and possible cause

Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-28T17:43:54Z

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 05:27:18PM +0200, Chris Ross wrote:
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> Marcelo Tosatti escreveu:
> >Can you please test Rik's patch with your spurious OOM kill testcase?
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> Do you have a particular test case in mind?

Anonymous memory intensive loads. It was easy to trigger the
problem with "fillmem" from Quintela's memtest suite.

> Is it accessible to the rest
> of us? If you send it to me I will run it on my 64MB P2 machine, which
> makes a very good test rig for the oom_killer because it is normally
> plagued by it.
>
> I have already run Rik's patch to great success using my test case of
> compiling umlsim. Without the patch this fails every time at the linking
> the UML kernel stage.

Cool!