Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 6 Oct 2001 17:28:29 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: OOM-Killer in 2.4.11pre4 |
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On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 05:06:53PM +0200, Christian Bornträger wrote: > > to test the oom killer you should try to run out of memory sometime. > > I used a test program with an endless dummy=new char[1024] loop.
This loop doesn't generate any page fault, it just allocates virtual space.
> Bytheway,I had this problem without highmem - only 512 MB, and my problem is
I cannot reproduce anything like that here with 512M on 2.4.11pre3aa1. the reports I had where all with 4G of ram, in particular with the 3.5G of virtual memory per-process on x86 which increases the pressure on the normal zone that in turn showed me the problem.
Anyways now that I think to have seen the issues with normal zone faliures I will try to address them soon without having to introduce deadlock prone code into -aa. Probably not today but I hope tomorrow or on Monday.
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