From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx160.postini.com [74.125.245.160]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A47656B002B for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:13:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 14:13:29 +1100 From: paul.szabo@sydney.edu.au Message-Id: <201302010313.r113DTj3027195@como.maths.usyd.edu.au> Subject: Re: Bug#695182: [RFC] Reproducible OOM with just a few sleeps In-Reply-To: <1359687434.31386.53.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: ben@decadent.org.uk Cc: 695182@bugs.debian.org, dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, pavel@ucw.cz Dear Ben, >>>> PAE is broken for any amount of RAM. >>> No it isn't. >> Could I please ask you to expand on that? > > I already did, a few messages back. OK, thanks. Noting however that fewer than those back, I said: ... PAE with any RAM fails the "sleep test": n=0; while [ $n -lt 33000 ]; do sleep 600 & ((n=n+1)); done and somewhere also said that non-PAE passes. Does not that prove that PAE is broken? Cheers, 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