From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx150.postini.com [74.125.245.150]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CC3436B0007 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 04:07:34 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:07:04 +1100 From: paul.szabo@sydney.edu.au Message-Id: <201301310907.r0V974j9017335@como.maths.usyd.edu.au> Subject: Re: Bug#695182: [RFC] Reproducible OOM with just a few sleeps In-Reply-To: <1359609334.31386.40.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: 695182@bugs.debian.org, ben@decadent.org.uk Cc: dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, pavel@ucw.cz Dear Ben, Thanks for the repeated explanations. > PAE was a stop-gap ... > ... [PAE] completely untenable. Is this a good time to withdraw PAE, to tell the world that it does not work? Maybe you should have had such comments in the code. Seems that amd64 now works "somewhat": on Debian the linux-image package is tricky to install, and linux-headers is even harder. Is there work being done to make this smoother? --- I am still not convinced by the "lowmem starvation" explanation: because then PAE should have worked fine on my 3GB machine; maybe I should also try PAE on my 512MB laptop. - Though, what do I know, have not yet found the buggy line of code I believe is lurking there... Thanks, Paul Paul Szabo psz@maths.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org