Re: Google's mm problem - not reproduced on 2.4.13
Daniel Phillips (phillips@bonn-fries.net)
Wed, 31 Oct 2001 22:03:31 +0100
On October 31, 2001 09:45 pm, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 09:39:12PM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > On October 31, 2001 07:06 pm, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > > I just tried your test program with 2.4.13, 2 Gig, and it ran without
> > > problems. Could you try that over there and see if you get the same result?
> > > If it does run, the next move would be to check with 3.5 Gig.
> >
> > Ben reports that his test with 2 Gig memory runs fine, as it does for me, but
> > that it locks up tight with 3.5 Gig, requiring power cycle. Since I only
> > have 2 Gig here I can't reproduce that (yet).
>
> are you sure it isn't an oom condition. can you reproduce on
> 2.4.14pre5aa1? mainline (at least before pre6) could deadlock with too
> much mlocked memory.
I don't know, I can't reproduce it here, I don't have enough memory. Ben?
--
Daniel
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