From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753515Ab3BABHx (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:07:53 -0500 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:38320 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751264Ab3BABHu (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:07:50 -0500 Message-ID: <1359680851.31386.51.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> Subject: Re: Bug#695182: [RFC] Reproducible OOM with just a few sleeps From: Ben Hutchings To: paul.szabo@sydney.edu.au Cc: 695182@bugs.debian.org, dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, pavel@ucw.cz Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 01:07:31 +0000 In-Reply-To: <201301312306.r0VN6tBx012280@como.maths.usyd.edu.au> References: <201301312306.r0VN6tBx012280@como.maths.usyd.edu.au> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-SWzmCrfY7h298Vl8qUCB" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.4.4-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:470:1f08:1539:a11:96ff:fec6:70c4 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-SWzmCrfY7h298Vl8qUCB Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 10:06 +1100, paul.szabo@sydney.edu.au wrote: > Dear Ben, >=20 > > Based on your experience I might propose to change the automatic kernel > > selection for i386 so that we use 'amd64' on a system with >16GB RAM an= d > > a capable processor. >=20 > Don't you mean change to amd64 for >4GB (or any RAM), never using PAE? > PAE is broken for any amount of RAM. [...] No it isn't. Ben. --=20 Ben Hutchings Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstei= n --=-SWzmCrfY7h298Vl8qUCB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUAUQsVU+e/yOyVhhEJAQqXog/+IVILgiQ4pXEQYLwTdIem3AggO4Vjg5iJ Uball4sfs1ap0/LRygbr2MuvI40S9HQQYeBOU3AL5Y9dNvWdrIPjgsz5URseiyaF M4TQQ7IBj88rPBUIWzClnmmZ0Qp6HfOKvh/8ezr/geH4eHjtwB9o6VnBUAMV/zhh 3JarsI+cL2dGDtW/11HZRq3KhCStSlVtVpCoA5Ocj2dVnPcgbt01HD/ByEk0KUWQ rdkQtCk/7PVJebiLyRchqpSo25SEwUoHIZh2q9z2QsRlSW9oBXeDW9clg8NHMF1R LbgPZNfSQrQLlK+3peA3wszJu3YcZxeLhIzdIN69KJb79DAG2ab4NuglxBV0i7Zj Pnk1UHMCoOcI2ZDtbdk+ssa0YSKYFFCPovQj6Lz0mTg9VxmqFv1uISh36hsQ5Hbl uT2t1q7vxSyYxzYQOqe6kQwtxIDJEtz8E+gYj54ACCuMDvH50UDVwV2yQRt00v47 G6Ydr5yEajHV7xDMYO7xSF5X8dmQ6M3GlgaHwPp8t/lbE5CW5dUNwzeJNFdAMygV VytjvArlBFxVT3+ir4uhIIUdwqQk8dfRbjU8dbDi1nMIgSxX4okYap3IvjYtt5T3 1b5iOm0vLnfOVZDQZB9N2xNO3uiNy++cHRllQqVWGO8hq0YvhIf6mIMGKPzltSxy BIcBxVNcE58= =xVrj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-SWzmCrfY7h298Vl8qUCB--