From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rsf@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [TEST] page tables filling non-highmem
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 00:56:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020215085648.GD26322@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020215045106.GB26322@holomorphy.com> <E16beDZ-0002jy-00@starship.berlin>
In-Reply-To: <E16beDZ-0002jy-00@starship.berlin>
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 09:59:45AM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> As you described it to me on irc, this demonstration turns up a
> considerably worse problem than just having insufficient space for
> page tables - the system locks up hard instead of doing anything
> reasonable on page table-related oom. It's wrong that the system
> should behave this way, it is after all, just an oom.
> Now that basic stability issues seem to be under control, perhaps
> it's time to give the oom problem the attention it deserves?
It's not just OOM:
HighTotal: 11927512 kB
HighFree: 9423076 kB
LowTotal: 709456 kB
LowFree: 2208 kB
SwapTotal:ead from remote host elm3b78.eng: Connection reset by peer
In my mind, this is a basic stability issue.
Cheers,
Bill
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-15 4:51 [TEST] page tables filling non-highmem William Lee Irwin III
2002-02-15 8:59 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-15 8:56 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-02-18 1:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-02-18 1:59 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-18 3:02 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2002-02-18 12:39 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-02-18 3:26 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-02-18 12:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-02-18 12:59 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-18 13:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-02-19 0:06 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-18 4:25 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-02-19 0:03 ` William Lee Irwin III
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202181914350.5124-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2002-02-19 0:16 ` William Lee Irwin III
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