Re: Bug#695182: [RFC] Reproducible OOM with just a few sleeps

Ben Hutchings
2013-01-31T13:39:07Z

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On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 20:07 +1100, paul.szabo@sydney.edu.au wrote:
> Dear Ben,
>
> Thanks for the repeated explanations.
>
> > PAE was a stop-gap ...
> > ... [PAE] completely untenable.
>
> Is this a good time to withdraw PAE, to tell the world that it does not
> work? Maybe you should have had such comments in the code.
>
> Seems that amd64 now works "somewhat": on Debian the linux-image package
> is tricky to install,

If you do an i386 (userland) installation then you must either select
expert mode to get a choice of kernel packages, or else install the
'amd64' kernel package afterward.

> and linux-headers is even harder.

In what way?

> Is there work being done to make this smoother?
[...]

Debian users are now generally installing a full amd64 (userland and
kernel installation. The default installation image linked from
www.debian.org is the 32/64-bit net-installer which will install amd64
if the system is capable of it.

Based on your experience I might propose to change the automatic kernel
selection for i386 so that we use 'amd64' on a system with >16GB RAM and
a capable processor.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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