Re: Google's mm problem - not reproduced on 2.4.13

Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-31T20:45:40Z

On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 09:39:12PM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On October 31, 2001 07:06 pm, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > I just tried your test program with 2.4.13, 2 Gig, and it ran without
> > problems. Could you try that over there and see if you get the same result?
> > If it does run, the next move would be to check with 3.5 Gig.
>
> Ben reports that his test with 2 Gig memory runs fine, as it does for me, but
> that it locks up tight with 3.5 Gig, requiring power cycle. Since I only
> have 2 Gig here I can't reproduce that (yet).

are you sure it isn't an oom condition. can you reproduce on
2.4.14pre5aa1? mainline (at least before pre6) could deadlock with too
much mlocked memory.

Andrea