From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: "werner" Subject: Re: v3.4-rc2 out-of-memory problems (was Re: 3.4-rc1 sticks-and-crashs) To: Rik van Riel , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , 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 Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:13:13 -0400 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4F83923E.6010802@redhat.com> References: <4F83923E.6010802@redhat.com> 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: Rik van Riel : To avoid misunderstandings, that improvement is WITH / INCLUDING the patch suggested by D.R and L.T., namely: put + free_task(task); after line 78 in subroutine lowmemorykiller.c . At least phenomenologically, it looks that it resolved the problem I dont understanding so much about programming and about the problem (and "android" is neither running on my own computer nor on my coffee-machine, but I enable everything just because I don't know what hardware have the people which use my distro and compiled kernels) so that I don't understand all details of the discusion, but if people come to an agreement what I could test further, one can mail it me and explain it me slowly, then I test it out. wl ========== On Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:51:58 -0400 Rik van Riel wrote: > On 04/09/2012 09:52 PM, werner wrote: >> 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 occur > > That could be due to a few VM patches which I wrote, >that > went in through -mm. > > I am very interested in whether people do find a way to > break the VM with those patches, in ways that used to >work > before. > > If you find any, please let me know so I can fix them > before the 3.4 kernel comes out. > > If everything you try works better than before, I'm not > going to complain about good news :) > > -- > All rights reversed > > "werner" --- Professional hosting for everyone - http://www.host.ru