From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 13:44:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 13:43:59 -0400 Received: from twilight.cs.hut.fi ([130.233.40.5]:5871 "EHLO twilight.cs.hut.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 13:43:56 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 20:43:50 +0300 From: Ville Herva To: Alan Cox Cc: Kip Macy , kernel Subject: Re: ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption Message-ID: <20010727204350.L1419@niksula.cs.hut.fi> In-Reply-To: <20010727202950.I1503@niksula.cs.hut.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 06:40:32PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 06:40:32PM +0100, you [Alan Cox] claimed: > > After fresh boot to the default RH71 kernel (2.4.2-2 or whatever it is) on > > console (no X running): > > > > > diff -Naur /usr/src/linux.rh-default /usr/src/linux-2.4.4 > diff > > zsh: killed diff > > > > > dmesg | tail > > kernel: out of memory, killed process n (xfs) > > kernel: out of memory, killed process n (diff) > > > > Phew. > > No argument on that one. I'm still seeing it in vanilla 2.4.6 as well but > 2.4.7 is looking a lot better. I wasn't able to easily reproduce that on 2.4.4ac5 (that I upgraded into almost immediately). It may be that the OOM rambo wasn't fully sane on that one either, but at least it seemed to handle the silly "someone filled the cache - gee, we must be oom" case rather better... -- v -- v@iki.fi