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SubjectRe: 2.6.5-rc3-aa1
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 23:22:42 +0200
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 09:16:20PM +0200, Bongani Hlope wrote:
> > On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 05:09:21 +0200
> > Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > > The xfs warning during truncate will be fixed with a later update
> > > (Nathan is currently working on it).
> > >
> > > next thing to do is to fixup the merging in mprotect.
> > >
> >
> > I'm running 2.6.5-rc2-aa4, when I woke-up in the morning almost all of
> > my memory was gone, but my swap was never touched. I managed to get
> > only the output of SysRq-M before it hard-locked. For some reason it
> > doesn't swap. I'll try to reproduce.
>
> weird, it really loks like it doesn't swap anything. At least it's not a
> race condition. Which fs are you using?
>
> can you try to actively push it into swap with a script like this?
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> while 1:
> try:
> a = 'a'
> while 1:
> a += a
> except MemoryError:
> pass
>

I'm using ext3. and your script did push things to swap. I'm busy compiling 2.6.5-rc3-aa1 now.

Thanx Andrea
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