From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 12:48:43 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: 2.6.22-stable causes oomkiller to be invoked In-Reply-To: <20071230140116.GC21106@elte.hu> Message-ID: References: <20071214150533.aa30efd4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071215035200.GA22082@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20071214220030.325f82b8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071215104434.GA26325@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20071217045904.GB31386@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20071217120720.e078194b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071221044508.GA11996@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20071230140116.GC21106@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Dhaval Giani , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , htejun@gmail.com, gregkh@suse.de, Srivatsa Vaddagiri , Balbir Singh , maneesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com, lkml , stable@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > so we still dont seem to understand the failure mode well enough. This > also looks like a quite dangerous change so late in the v2.6.24 cycle. > Does it really fix the OOM? If yes, why exactly? Not exactly sure. I suspect that there is some memory corruption. See my earlier post from today. I do not see this issue on my system. So it must be particular to a certain config. -- 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