Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable

Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-01-04T13:05:48Z

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 10:06:05 +0200
Ville Herva <vherva@niksula.hut.fi> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:26:01PM -0600, you [Ken Brownfield] claimed:
> >
> > | > 3) Memory allocation failures and OOM triggers
> > | > even though caches remain full.
> > |
> > | I have not had one up to now in everyday life with 2.4.17
> >
> > I'm seeing this in malloc()-heavy apps, but fairly sporadic unless I
> > create a test case.
>
> I'm seeing this on 2GB IA64 (2.4.16-17). I posted a _very_ simple test case
> to lkml a while a go. It didn't happen on 256MB x86.
>
> I plan to try -aa shortly, now that I got patches to make it compile on
> IA64.

Ok, I am going to buy more mem right now to see what you see.

Regards,
Stephan