Re: Kernel falls apart under light memory pressure (i.e. linking vmlinux)

From: Andrew Lutomirski
Date: Fri May 20 2011 - 14:40:55 EST


On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Andrew Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I just tested 2.6.38.6 with the attached patch.  It survived dirty_ram
> and test_mempressure without any problems other than slowness, but
> when I hit ctrl-c to stop test_mempressure, I got the attached oom.

Reproduced with CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR=n.

--Andy
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