Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 7 Nov 1998 00:11:41 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Patch to Memory Subsystem ... (Needed?) |
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On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Brian Schau wrote:
>Motivation. Today one of my servers had to be 'hard'-rebooted due to >lack of memory. One user-space program ate all available memory - >resulting in a lot of 'Unable to load interpreter' and the like. Even >root couldn't get a login at the console.
Note that kernels < pre-2.1.127-6 had no 1 chance to survive when the RAM and the swap was used at all. I suggest you to try pre-2.1.127-7 (except if you have to print because there' s a hanging bug in lp) and to try to crash the machine again.
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