Re: [Haifux] Oops your system with plain malloc()

[Eli Billauer]

On 05/17/2012 10:23 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: I may consider upgrading to a kernel > 2.6.35 which has gone through a long phase of "bug fixes only" but I understand there is no such around at the moment. What I call a vintage kernel. You obviously have a beefy system with memory to spare. You obviously don't really care rebooting it. The logical conclusion: build some kernels and test it. Grab a kernel tree, see if this still crashes v2.6.35, and if so, git bisect is your friend. Beefy it is, yes. Which is why it hasn't reached its full memory usage ever during the two years it has been running. Rebooting? Yes, I do care about that. Neither do I want to spend time playing around with this. Actually, I could play around with a virtual machine. I suppose the problem would appear likewise. I wrote to this list in case someone else wants to check his or her computer up. It does look like this was fixed in later kernels, but it just proves my point that no matter which kernel you pick, there's always something. Except, maybe, those kernels that have been maintained for a long while for stability.    Eli -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il

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