Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:01:45 -0200
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Chris Ross <chris@tebibyte.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       javier@marcet.info, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel@kolivas.org,
       barry <barry@disus.com>
Subject: Re: Mem issues in 2.6.9 (ever since 2.6.9-rc3) and possible cause
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On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 05:27:18PM +0200, Chris Ross wrote:
> 
> 
> Marcelo Tosatti escreveu:
> >Can you please test Rik's patch with your spurious OOM kill testcase?
> 
> Do you have a particular test case in mind? 

Anonymous memory intensive loads. It was easy to trigger the 
problem with "fillmem" from Quintela's memtest suite.

> Is it accessible to the rest 
> of us? If you send it to me I will run it on my 64MB P2 machine, which 
> makes a very good test rig for the oom_killer because it is normally 
> plagued by it.
> 
> I have already run Rik's patch to great success using my test case of 
> compiling umlsim. Without the patch this fails every time at the linking 
> the UML kernel stage.

Cool!
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