Dear Jonathan, Thanks again for your help in writing "correct" and "acceptable" patches. I did change a few things, hopefully for the better.
I decided not to "push" the drop-caches part of my patch; because it now seems to me that it is not the "essence" of the issue: it protects against OOM when writing a few files, but does not protect when running a few sleeps. I am coming back to the idea that this is some signed-vs-unsigned or similar issue... though I could not find it yet! --- Using the amd64 kernel seems a "workable" workaround for the OOM issue. Cheers, Paul Paul Szabo [email protected] http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
