Re: pre5 VM livelock

Marcelo Tosatti (marcelo@conectiva.com.br)
Wed, 31 Oct 2001 07:42:59 -0200 (BRST)


On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > Question: did you have some big process that you tried to test the VM
> > > with? Did you expect the oom killer to kill it?
> >
> > AFAICT, yes. I am going to re-run again to make sure (both with pre5
> > and also pre5aa1).
>
> Ok. The oom-killer is something I didn't even bother worrying about in the
> pre-series, I'll give that another look.

Jeff,

Could you please show us the _full_ Alt+Sysrq+M output when the problem
happens? I want to see the "free min low high" part.

Thanks

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