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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 07:42:59 -0200 (BRST)
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: pre5 VM livelock
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On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > Question: did you have some big process that you tried to test the VM
> > > with? Did you expect the oom killer to kill it?
> >
> > AFAICT, yes.  I am going to re-run again to make sure (both with pre5
> > and also pre5aa1).
> 
> Ok. The oom-killer is something I didn't even bother worrying about in the
> pre-series, I'll give that another look.

Jeff,

Could you please show us the _full_ Alt+Sysrq+M output when the problem
happens? I want to see the "free min low  high" part.

Thanks

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