Re: 2.5.33-mm3 dbench hang and 2.5.33 page allocation failures

[Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>]

On Thursday 05 September 2002 19:23, Steven Cole wrote:
> I booted 2.5.33-mm3 and ran dbench with increasing
> numbers of clients: 1,2,3,4,6,8,10,12,16,etc. while
> running vmstat -n 1 600 from another terminal.
> 
> After about 3 minutes, the output from vmstat stopped,
> and the dbench 16 output stopped.  The machine would
> respond to pings, but not to anything else. I had to 
> hard-reset the box. Nothing interesting was saved in 
> /var/log/messages. I have the output from vmstat if needed.

That happened to me yesterday while hacking 2.4 and the reason was
failed oom detection.  Memory leak?

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Daniel
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