Re: 2.4.0-test9-pre2 OOM problem

2000-09-29 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Byron Stanoszek wrote: > I'm afraid to try any kernel above pre2 right now because of the > OOPSen reported by many people. I just wanted to bring attention > to this problem in case it hasn't already been fixed. Fixing OOM handling is still on the TODO list for the new VM.

2.4.0-test9-pre2 OOM problem

2000-09-29 Thread Byron Stanoszek
I've been using 2.4.0-test9-pre2 happily for about 2 weeks without any crashes or other memory problems (I'm using X 3.3.6, so the shared memory stuff didn't break anything). I accidentally compiled a program that I have using electric fence. The program does a huge number of mallocs. Well, withi