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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.20-rc5: cp 18gb 18gb.2 = OOM killer, reproducible just like 2.16.19.2
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:32:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070125003242.GA23343@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701241837550.2930@p34.internal.lan>

Hi!

> > Is it highmem-related? Can you try it with mem=256M?
> 
> Bad idea, the kernel crashes & burns when I use mem=256, I had to boot 
> 2.6.20-rc5-6 single to get back into my machine, very nasty.  Remember I 
> use an onboard graphics controller that has 128MB of RAM allocated to it 
> and I believe the ICH8 chipset also uses some memory, in any event mem=256 
> causes the machine to lockup before it can even get to the boot/init 
> processes, the two leds on the keyboard were blinking, caps lock and 
> scroll lock and I saw no console at all!

Okay, so try mem=700M or disable CONFIG_HIGHMEM or something.
									Pavel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-25  0:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-21 19:27 Justin Piszcz
2007-01-22 13:37 ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-22 18:48   ` Justin Piszcz
2007-01-22 23:47     ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-24 23:39     ` Justin Piszcz
2007-01-24 23:42       ` Justin Piszcz
2007-01-25  0:32       ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2007-01-25  0:36         ` Justin Piszcz
2007-01-25  0:58         ` Justin Piszcz
2007-01-25  9:08         ` Justin Piszcz
2007-01-25 22:34           ` Mark Hahn
2007-01-26  0:22             ` Justin Piszcz
2007-01-22 19:57 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-22 20:20   ` Justin Piszcz
2007-01-23  0:37   ` Donald Douwsma
2007-01-23  1:12     ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-24 23:40   ` Justin Piszcz
2007-01-25  0:10   ` Justin Piszcz
2007-01-25  0:36     ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-25 11:11       ` Justin Piszcz
2007-01-25  1:21     ` Bill Cizek
2007-01-25 11:13       ` Justin Piszcz
2007-01-25  0:34   ` Justin Piszcz

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