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

paul.szabo
2013-02-01T03:13:54Z

Dear Ben,

>>>> PAE is broken for any amount of RAM.
>>> No it isn't.
>> Could I please ask you to expand on that?
>
> I already did, a few messages back.

OK, thanks. Noting however that fewer than those back, I said:
... PAE with any RAM fails the "sleep test":
n=0; while [ $n -lt 33000 ]; do sleep 600 & ((n=n+1)); done
and somewhere also said that non-PAE passes. Does not that prove
that PAE is broken?

Cheers, Paul

Paul Szabo psz@maths.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia