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Subject: Re: mlock oops
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Benoit Dejean <bdejean@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 04:43 +0200, Benoit Dejean wrote:
> Hi,
> 	i'm using Debian SID kernel-image-2.6.11-powerpc [1] (which is not
> tainted). I've unfortunately started sysutils [2] memtest as user (no caps, no
> sticky bit).
> 
> /usr/sbin/memtest all

> As expected, a few minutes later, my system was back. But an oops occured.

That's not an Oops...

> I was expecting the OOMK to rescue my system by killing memtest.
> 

This is exactly what happened:

> Out of Memory: Killed process 2386 (memtest).
> memtest: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0xd2
> 

Lee