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Subject: Re: [RFC] Reproducible OOM with just a few sleeps
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On 01/30/2013 04:51 AM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Are you saying that HIGHMEM configuration with 4GB ram is not expected
> to work?

Not really.

The assertion was that 4GB with no PAE passed a forkbomb test (ooming)
while 4GB of RAM with PAE hung, thus _PAE_ is broken.