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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:24:04 +0900
From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: OOM killer doesn't kill the right task....
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Hi David

> Running in a 512MB UML system without swap, XFSQA test 084 reliably
> kills the kernel completely as the OOM killer is unable to find a
> task to kill. log output is below.
> 
> I don't know when it started failing - ISTR this working just fine
> on 2.6.24 kernels.

Can you reproduce it on non UML box?