Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jan 2002 10:06:05 +0200 | From | Ville Herva <> | Subject | Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable |
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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.
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