Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Jun 1999 11:19:00 +0200 (CEST) | From | Urban Widmark <> | Subject | Re: Allocation of too much memory hangs system, kernel 2.2.* |
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On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Urban Widmark wrote: > > >I don't remember if I reported it or not, since I thought the "OOM" > >problem was well known and left for future Linux versions. > > I thought it was just fine with 2.2.x. > > Could you check if the lockup goes away with this patch below against > clean 2.2.9? (... really I never tried it on a clean 2.2.9 but should work
It isn't a lockup problem. The mail I replied to was about oom() possibly killing the init process. I believe I saw this happen with an early 2.2.0, I haven't tried provoking it again.
I'm going to try a clean 2.2.9 first, then this patch, then 2.3.4-pre2, then pre-2.3.4-2-andrea2 ... (but I'll have to wait for this evening since people depend on the machine in question being up during the day :)
I don't know how easy it will be to reproduce init being killed, I remember it as very easy to get oom.
Do you still think it is a problem/the same problem? If you thought it was a lockup (== everything stops working) and has a patch for that ...
/Urban
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