Re: 2.6.22-stable causes oomkiller to be invoked

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Wed Jan 02 2008 - 15:48:53 EST


On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> so we still dont seem to understand the failure mode well enough. This
> also looks like a quite dangerous change so late in the v2.6.24 cycle.
> Does it really fix the OOM? If yes, why exactly?

Not exactly sure. I suspect that there is some memory corruption. See my
earlier post from today. I do not see this issue on my system. So it must
be particular to a certain config.
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