Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:24:22 +0100 | From | Stephan von Krawczynski <> | Subject | Re: 1gb RAM + 1gb SWAP + make -j bzImage = OOM |
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On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 22:22:16 -0800 "Phil Oester" <kernel@theoesters.com> wrote:
> I've rerun this test a number of times, and cannot reliably reproduce > the OOM - though it still does OOM occasionally. It never OOM's right > after a bootup - usually the greatest chance of OOM is after 2 or 3 > consecutive runs without a reboot. Once it even froze the box and > required a powercycle. > > I'm surprised you cannot OOM with 1gb RAM/256MB swap, as sometimes I'm > over 900MB in swap - did you try consecutive runs, or just once and then > reboot between each run?
I tried just about everything I could think of and it never went in OOM. Even the first test I did were with several days uptime - meaning far away from "cleaning" reboot. I hate reboot :-)
> [...] > Haven't yet tried Martin's patch - though since I can't reliably produce > the OOM, testing it wouldn't help much.
Well, take the other side: if you do not manage to OOM afterwards, even at the tenth consecutive try, there is probably something about the patch ...
Regards, Stephan
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