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From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Cc: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	wli@holomorphy.com
Subject: Re: [BUG]  oom killer not triggering in 2.6.9-rc3  -- FIXED in -rc4
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:41:23 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <416C4173.3060408@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041012130859.G2441@build.pdx.osdl.net>

Chris Wright wrote:

> Chris, did you try the patch I sent you (it's in mainline now, so if you
> re-test on 2.6.9-rc4 you'd pick it up)?  

Oops.  No I didn't--meant to, but then forgot.  I should have, it seems to be 
fixed in -rc4.

 > With that patch, with 2G of
> memory and no swap, my machine did not lock up, and the conditions that
> the patch protect against were triggered.  And, with the patch backed
> out, kswapd spins out of control.  I believe this is fixed.

2.6.9-rc4 seems sane again.  Start up two memory hogs, one gets killed immediately.

Sweet.

Thanks for your help,

Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-12 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-09  0:14 [BUG] oom killer not triggering in 2.6.9-rc3 Chris Friesen
2004-10-09  0:26 ` Chris Wright
2004-10-11 13:58 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-12  5:03   ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-12  5:22     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-12 15:24       ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-12 16:28         ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-12  9:44     ` Andries Brouwer
2004-10-12 15:32       ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-12 20:08         ` Chris Wright
2004-10-12 20:41           ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2004-10-12 20:54             ` [BUG] oom killer not triggering in 2.6.9-rc3 -- FIXED in -rc4 Chris Wright
2004-10-12 21:02     ` [BUG] oom killer not triggering in 2.6.9-rc3 Alan Cox
2004-10-12 22:25       ` Chris Friesen

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