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


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