From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261639AbULTU6a (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:58:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261640AbULTU63 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:58:29 -0500 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:38273 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261639AbULTU60 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:58:26 -0500 Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.9-ac16 From: Alan Cox To: Chris Ross Cc: Jan Engelhardt , LKML In-Reply-To: <41C6FB79.8030101@tebibyte.org> References: <41C2FF09.5020005@tebibyte.org> <1103222616.21920.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1103349675.27708.39.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> <41C448BB.1020902@tmr.com> <1103554123.30268.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> <41C6FB79.8030101@tebibyte.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1103572475.31542.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 19:54:37 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Llu, 2004-12-20 at 16:19, Chris Ross wrote: > What sort of reasonably OK? My experience on my 64MB P2-350 Dell > Optiplex is that 2.6.9-acXX will kill things off at random even when the > machine isn't out of memory. If you have any particular test cases you > would like run just ask, I understand that some of the difficulty is > that the VM developers have machines plenty big enough not to suffer the > problems. I normally test down to about 100Mbyte but not lower. The 2.6.9-ac15 tree introduced Marcelo's suggested fix for the VM writeout oom cases.