That is probably too small ram to start with. What can you expect
to ask for 3G on a 1/4 G machine?
>
> Oct 24 22:29:32 x30 kernel: VM: killing process bigmm
>
> the machine never deadlocked. Probably it's one of the oom deadlocks
> that I fixed in my 2.4 -aa tree and that the oom killer heuristic in
> mainline cannot figure out. Please try to reproduce with 2.4.20pre11aa1.
> thanks.
I will definitely try it when I can use that big memory machine again.
Other people is running (windows) test on it right now.
>
> > Prepare to reset the machine if you try that, you have been warned :-)
>
> If you're running an oom deadlock prone kernel.
When it dies, it is not deadlock though. Hard disk keep spinning.
It looks like dead loop in swapping and not response to any thing else.
But one thing for sure, OOM did not kill it correctly.
Chris
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