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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	wli@holomorphy.com
Subject: Re: [BUG]  oom killer not triggering in 2.6.9-rc3
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:08:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041012130859.G2441@build.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <416BF927.7000000@nortelnetworks.com>; from cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com on Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 09:32:55AM -0600

* Chris Friesen (cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com) wrote:
> However, isn't it a bad thing that a vanilla 2.6.9-rc3 can be totally locked up 
> by an unpriviledged user by running two tasks?

Chris, did you try the patch I sent you (it's in mainline now, so if you
re-test on 2.6.9-rc4 you'd pick it up)?  With that patch, with 2G of
memory and no swap, my machine did not lock up, and the conditions that
the patch protect against were triggered.  And, with the patch backed
out, kswapd spins out of control.  I believe this is fixed.

thanks,
-chris
-- 
Linux Security Modules     http://lsm.immunix.org     http://lsm.bkbits.net

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-12 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-09  0:14 Chris Friesen
2004-10-09  0:26 ` Chris Wright
2004-10-11 13:58 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-12  5:03   ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-12  5:22     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-12 15:24       ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-12 16:28         ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-12  9:44     ` Andries Brouwer
2004-10-12 15:32       ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-12 20:08         ` Chris Wright [this message]
2004-10-12 20:41           ` [BUG] oom killer not triggering in 2.6.9-rc3 -- FIXED in -rc4 Chris Friesen
2004-10-12 20:54             ` Chris Wright
2004-10-12 21:02     ` [BUG] oom killer not triggering in 2.6.9-rc3 Alan Cox
2004-10-12 22:25       ` Chris Friesen

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