Re: OOM triggered with plenty of memory free

2013-03-24 Thread Jonathan Woithe
This post ties up a few loose ends in this thread which remained after my 21 March 2013 post. * The memory leak was not present in 2.6.36. * The patch to 2.6.35.11 at the end of this email (based on 48e6b121605512d87f8da1ccd014313489c19630 from linux-stable) resolves the memory leak in

Re: OOM triggered with plenty of memory free

2013-03-24 Thread Jonathan Woithe
This post ties up a few loose ends in this thread which remained after my 21 March 2013 post. * The memory leak was not present in 2.6.36. * The patch to 2.6.35.11 at the end of this email (based on 48e6b121605512d87f8da1ccd014313489c19630 from linux-stable) resolves the memory leak in

Re: OOM triggered with plenty of memory free

2013-03-21 Thread Jonathan Woithe
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 02:33:23AM -0700, Raymond Jennings wrote: > Anyway, to the parent poster, could you tell us more, such as how much > ram you had left free? Following on from my previous post, here is a summary of what I know about this memory leak following additional testing. * It was

Re: OOM triggered with plenty of memory free

2013-03-21 Thread Jonathan Woithe
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 02:33:23AM -0700, Raymond Jennings wrote: Anyway, to the parent poster, could you tell us more, such as how much ram you had left free? Following on from my previous post, here is a summary of what I know about this memory leak following additional testing. * It was

Re: OOM triggered with plenty of memory free

2013-03-19 Thread Jonathan Woithe
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 02:33:23AM -0700, Raymond Jennings wrote: > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 2:25 AM, Hillf Danton wrote: > >> Some system specifications: > >> - CPU: i7 860 at 2.8 GHz > >> - Mainboard: Advantech AIMB-780 > >> - RAM: 4 GB > >> - Kernel: 2.6.35.11 SMP, 32 bit (kernel.org kernel, no

Re: OOM triggered with plenty of memory free

2013-03-19 Thread Jonathan Woithe
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 02:33:23AM -0700, Raymond Jennings wrote: On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 2:25 AM, Hillf Danton dhi...@gmail.com wrote: Some system specifications: - CPU: i7 860 at 2.8 GHz - Mainboard: Advantech AIMB-780 - RAM: 4 GB - Kernel: 2.6.35.11 SMP, 32 bit (kernel.org kernel, no

Re: OOM triggered with plenty of memory free

2013-03-16 Thread Jonathan Woithe
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 02:33:23AM -0700, Raymond Jennings wrote: > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 2:25 AM, Hillf Danton wrote: > >> Some system specifications: > >> - CPU: i7 860 at 2.8 GHz > >> - Mainboard: Advantech AIMB-780 > >> - RAM: 4 GB > >> - Kernel: 2.6.35.11 SMP, 32 bit (kernel.org kernel, no

Re: OOM triggered with plenty of memory free

2013-03-16 Thread Jonathan Woithe
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 02:33:23AM -0700, Raymond Jennings wrote: On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 2:25 AM, Hillf Danton dhi...@gmail.com wrote: Some system specifications: - CPU: i7 860 at 2.8 GHz - Mainboard: Advantech AIMB-780 - RAM: 4 GB - Kernel: 2.6.35.11 SMP, 32 bit (kernel.org kernel, no