Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 03:07:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 03:07:20 -0500 Received: from twilight.cs.hut.fi ([130.233.40.5]:46908 "EHLO twilight.cs.hut.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 03:06:17 -0500 Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 10:06:05 +0200 From: Ville Herva To: Ken Brownfield Cc: Stephan von Krawczynski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable Message-ID: <20020104100604.D1331@niksula.cs.hut.fi> In-Reply-To: <20020103142301.C4759@asooo.flowerfire.com> <200201040019.BAA30736@webserver.ithnet.com> <20020103232601.B12884@asooo.flowerfire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020103232601.B12884@asooo.flowerfire.com>; from brownfld@irridia.com on Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:26:01PM -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:26:01PM -0600, you [Ken Brownfield] claimed: > > | > 3) Memory allocation failures and OOM triggers > | > even though caches remain full. > | > | I have not had one up to now in everyday life with 2.4.17 > > I'm seeing this in malloc()-heavy apps, but fairly sporadic unless I > create a test case. I'm seeing this on 2GB IA64 (2.4.16-17). I posted a _very_ simple test case to lkml a while a go. It didn't happen on 256MB x86. I plan to try -aa shortly, now that I got patches to make it compile on IA64. -- v -- v@iki.fi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/