I was busy with other things and did not track 2.2.18pre kernels very carefuly, but now I tried 2.2.18pre23 on Alpha and got an impression that a situation with a virtual memory handling is worse than it was, say, in 2.2.18pre15. I can now see in /var/log/messages entries like "VM: killing process sh" or "VM: killing process emacs" because I was compiling a kernel. This does not happen consistently, predictably, or very often but it does happen and I should not be oom. Nothing else crashes, or leaves any traces in log files, and a machine continues apparently not disturbed, but a process is gone. Applying patches from Andrea and the one from Rik, posted some week ago under "blindingly stupid 2.2 VM bug" subject, does not seem to help very much. Sigh! Am I isolated in this experience? Michal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
