Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:27:46 +0800 | From | WU Fengguang <> | Subject | Re: [BUGFIX] NULL pointer dereference in __vm_enough_memory() |
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Hi Balbir,
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On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 05:27:52PM +0530, Balbir Singh wrote: > For some reason my mailer keeps removing you from the cc.
Or maybe it's my SMTP server's problem. Email systems are complex.
> >>> Thats a valid point. It would be interesting to see what the overcommit > >>> setting was, when the panic occurred. > >> FYI, I do have nondefault overcommit settings: > >> > >> vm.overcommit_memory = 2 > >> vm.lowmem_reserve_ratio = 1 1 > > > > Yes, the bug disappears when changing to default overcommit_memory! > > > > Great! So the problem might have existed for some time, but we never > saw it due to default over commit values? Were you using these values > for over commit even before?
No I changed it several weeks ago to stop my desktop from freezing. So yes, the bug may have been there for a while.
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