Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps

Sean Hunter (sean@dev.sportingbet.com)
Wed, 6 Jun 2001 08:14:16 +0100


On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 09:42:26PM -0400, Russell Leighton wrote:
>
> I also need some 2.4 features and can't really goto 2.2.
> I would have to agree that the VM is too broken for production...looking
> forward to the work that (hopefully) will be in 2.4.6 to resolve these issues.
>

Boring to do a "me too", but "me too". We have four big production oracle
servers that could use 2.4 . However, the test server we have put 2.4 on has
no end of ridiculous VM and OOM problems.

It seems bizarre that a 4GB machine with a working set _far_ lower than that
should be dying from OOM and swapping itself to death, but that's life in 2.4
land.

Sean
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