Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Feb 2002 00:56:48 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [TEST] page tables filling non-highmem |
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On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 09:59:45AM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote: > As you described it to me on irc, this demonstration turns up a > considerably worse problem than just having insufficient space for > page tables - the system locks up hard instead of doing anything > reasonable on page table-related oom. It's wrong that the system > should behave this way, it is after all, just an oom. > Now that basic stability issues seem to be under control, perhaps > it's time to give the oom problem the attention it deserves?
It's not just OOM:
HighTotal: 11927512 kB HighFree: 9423076 kB LowTotal: 709456 kB LowFree: 2208 kB SwapTotal:ead from remote host elm3b78.eng: Connection reset by peer
In my mind, this is a basic stability issue.
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