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Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:36:06 +0000
From: Jonathan Miles <jon@cybus.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: OOM kernel behaviour - 2.6.32
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On 01/12/09 18:07 Jonathan Miles said the following:

> It's Ubuntu's (Karmic) 2.6.31 .deb and I don't know exactly what they've
> done to it, but AFAIK, no containers or policies. I'll compile 2.6.31.6
> and test with that. Won't be able to do this until Friday, so will check
> back in then.

Everything is fine having compiled straight 2.6.32. I watched the cache
being reclaimed with top as I used more and more RAM and didn't see the
OOM killer being invoked. So it was either a problem with 2.6.31 or with
whatever Ubuntu did to make the .deb.

Thanks,

-- 
Jonathan Miles <jon@cybus.co.uk>
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonmiles

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