What makes you think the problem would be gone? Does the LiveCD contain a C compiler? Otherwise, if you have access to the new kernel, you could try my instructions above.
Let me spell it out. Install GCC with synaptic (or "apt-get install gcc"). Fetch the test program I attached above. Then run the following command from a shell: gcc -Wall memhog.c -o memhog Make sure swap is activated. Then run "./memhog megabytes-to-allocate", e.g. "./memhog 400" to eat up 400 MBs of memory. The program sits tight on the memory for 60 seconds, then quits. You'll need to adjust the amount according to how much memory you have on your system. You can take a look with free -m This will take you maybe 10 minutes. Also why did this bug report end up on the kernel? Ben Collins on the previous bug clearly stated that he didn't thought it was a kernel problem. No matter what it's probably first and foremost a question of providing sensible configuration defaults. -- Thrashing hell https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/27441 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
