Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Mar 2001 11:36:59 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit |
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On 5 Mar 2001, Christoph Rohland wrote:
> > We've also seen (anecdotal evidence here) cases where a kernel > > panics, which we believe may have to do with having 0 < swap < 2x > > RAM. We're investigating further. > > That would be a kernel bug which should be fixed. The kernel should > handle oom/oos.
There was a bug which made the OOM-killer not work for some workloads. It should be fixed in the latest -ac kernels...
If in doubt, please test ;)
regards,
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