Re: 2.0.33 memory corruption bug_fix

Mike Kilburn (mike@conexio.co.za)
Sun, 5 Apr 1998 21:11:06 +0200 (SAST)

Andrea Arcangeli <arcangeli@mbox.queen.it> wrote:
> This bug was corrputing and resetting my 2.0.33 box when it went out of
> memory.
>
> Here the fix.

This fixes the many odd oops my 8M 386 (no swap, 3M ram disk) was getting
while stress testing a driver I've been working on. With this patch my
test programs just die when memory gets really low and fragmented. Without
the patch (2.0.34pre5) all sorts of weird oops occur.

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