On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 09:30:57PM +0200, Martin Egholm Nielsen wrote: [snip]
> Specs: > I'm having an embedded Linux system running on a PPC405EP (PPChameleon) > with 64 megs of RAM, some flash, but (ofcourse) no swap space. It runs a > 2.4.20 kernel patched with drivers for my device. > > Problem: > I have an application that is killed by the OOM (I guess) when it tries > to "use" more memory than present on the system. > Bolied down, memory is allocated with "sbrk" and then touch'ed (see > test-application below). [snip] > However, both my desktop Linux (RH 7.3)/2.4.18-10/i386 and Linux > (FC2)/2.6.5/i386 did what I expected: Well, the only way to get the same results is to use the _same_ linux kernel version and have the _same_ hw configuration (e.g. memory configuration). There were quite a few changes to VM during 2.4 lifetime; 2.6 is different from 2.4 in the memory management area. RH kernel is probably patched as hell, so who knows what VM it has. -- Eugene
