From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758368Ab2DJBtA (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2012 21:49:00 -0400 Received: from zfrontend1.aha.ru ([195.2.83.147]:57499 "EHLO zfrontend1.aha.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753691Ab2DJBs7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2012 21:48:59 -0400 X-iZenGuard: ZMAIL From: "werner" Subject: Re: v3.4-rc2 out-of-memory problems (was Re: 3.4-rc1 sticks-and-crashs) To: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , werner , Rik van Riel , Hugh Dickins , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Oleg Nesterov , Rabin Vincent , Christian Bejram , "Paul E. McKenney" , Anton Vorontsov , Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, rientjes@google.com X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro WebUser Interface v.4.3.12 Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:52:53 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org At least until now, and also tested hard by starting and stopping several memory-consuming operations, I'm happy to can inform that the computer didnt yet crash again, and that also slownessnesses what I observed under 3.3 (but without crashs) don't occure and kmemleak (or a similar name) what sometimes started and I had to shut down under 3.3 for recover normal speed, I dont see longer, so that the the patch suggested by D.R. and L.T. cured the crashs (at least phenomenologically). For be sure, however, it's still too early, only if the computer dont crash until tomorrow. If there is found an agreement about something else what's senseful to test out, I can do that. wl --- Professional hosting for everyone - http://www.host.ru