Sure Joseph, in progress.  I have the 3.9 kernel you referenced now
running my tests on my 12.04 system.  Its so far behaving normally, it
will likely take a few days to know whether there is any difference as
far as the "hang" is concerned.

Just for the record, I had previously tested with: linux-
image-3.5.0-21-generic_3.5.0-21.32~precise1_amd64.deb and the hang
failure could still be seen with that kernel.   I had not checked my
records when I submitted this bug, so had forgotten.  I could possibly
have entitled this bug as 3.5.0-21 or earlier fail, but was focused on
using one of the regularly distributed kernels to test/reproduce the
failure for you folks.

I had also tested with: linux-image-3.8.0-0-generic_3.8.0-0.3_amd64.deb.
On that system the hang did not occur BUT for some reason it also
appeared to be the case that my loading tests were not "pushing" the
system as hard either.  So I figured some mismatch between that kernel
and precise was the cause and that this 3.8 test was inconclusive.

Your 3.9 kernel seems to be allowing my tests to allocate as much memory
and inflict as many memory overloading events (OOM killer) as the 3.5
and 3.2 kernels, so this test looks like we will be able to gather a
datapoint on the issue, either way.

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