On Tuesday 07 December 2004 13:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Blaisorblade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 6:54 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: Sala, Roger > > Subject: Re: [uml-user] RE: User-mode-linux-user digest, Vol 1 #1812 - > > 10 msgs > > > > > fyi, Here are the results of two other host/guest combinations > > > > > > Host: 2.6.8.1 w/ skas3-v7 > > > Guest: 2.6.9 unpatched > > > > > > Firefox and java apps still die, but other nits seem to be fixed > > > > > > Host: 2.6.8.1 w/ skas3-v7 > > > Guest: 2.6.9 w/ bb4 > > > > > > Firefox and java apps seem to be rock solid albeit w/ limited > > > testing :) > > > > Ok, so that was not a OOM problem, at least not only (nothing > > should have been > > changed w.r.t. the OOM handling; some signal handling and > > syscall returns > > values details were instead changed and improved by Bodo Stroesser). > > There was an OOM problem that was causing things to crash before the signal > problem could manifest. I've been running these guests on 100M ram disks. > I've noticed that these recent kernels seem very reluctant to swap -- > especially the guests. Ah, you've workarounded the OOM by increasing "virtual" RAM and then it only worked in -bb4.
Yes, the picture is clear... The 2.6.9-bb4 fixes will have to be merged in 2.6.10, so success stories with it are also important. Bye -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
