Bug#695182: [RFC] Reproducible OOM with just a few sleeps

2013-02-17 Thread Simon Jeons
On 01/14/2013 11:00 PM, Dave Hansen wrote: On 01/11/2013 07:31 PM, paul.sz...@sydney.edu.au wrote: Seems that any i386 PAE machine will go OOM just by running a few processes. To reproduce: sh -c 'n=0; while [ $n -lt 1 ]; do sleep 600 & ((n=n+1)); done' My machine has 64GB RAM. With previ

Bug#695182: [RFC] Reproducible OOM with partial workaround

2013-01-11 Thread Simon Jeons
On Fri, 2013-01-11 at 00:01 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:46:15 +1100 paul.sz...@sydney.edu.au wrote: > > > > ... I don't believe 64GB of RAM has _ever_ been booted on a 32-bit > > > kernel without either violating the ABI (3GB/1GB split) or doing > > > something that never