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

[Ben Smith <ben@google.com>]

 > On October 31, 2001 09:45 pm, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
 >
 >>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.
 >>
 >
 > I don't know, I can't reproduce it here, I don't have enough memory.
 > Ben?

My test application gets killed (I believe by the oom handler). dmesg
complains about a lot of 0-order allocation failures. For this test,
I'm running with 2.4.14pre5aa1, 3.5gb of RAM, 2 PIII 1Ghz.
  - Ben

Ben Smith
Google, Inc