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Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 10:56:10 +1100
From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
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To: Chris Ross <chris@tebibyte.org>
CC: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
       Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
       Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com>,
       Martin MOKREJ? <mmokrejs@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz>, tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix spurious OOM kills
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Chris Ross wrote:
> 
> Chris Ross escreveu:
> 
>> It seems good.
> 
> 
> Sorry Marcelo, I spoke to soon. The oom killer still goes haywire even 
> with your new patch. I even got this one whilst the machine was booting!
> 
> Ignore the big numbers, they are cured by Kame's patch. I haven't 
> applied that to this kernel. This tree is pure 2.6.10-rc1-mm2 with only 
> your recent oom patch applied.
> 

But those big numbers are going to cause things to stop working properly.
You'd be best off to upgrade to the latest -mm kernel.

Thanks,
Nick
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