Re: 2.6.19.2, cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 = OOM killer, 100% reproducible

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 10:54:09AM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, thunder7@xs4all.nl wrote:
> 
> > From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
> > Date: Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 04:03:42PM -0500
> > > 
> > > 
> > > My swap is on, 2GB ram and 2GB of swap on this machine.  I can't go back 
> > > to 2.6.17.13 as it does not recognize the NICs in my machine correctly and 
> > > the Alsa Intel HD Audio driver has bugs etc, I guess I am stuck with 
> > > 2.6.19.2 :(
> > > 
> > Well, if you can't go back, you could always test 2.6.20-rc5. That's why
> > it's out there :-) It can't be any worse!
> > 
> > Good luck,
> > Jurriaan
> > -- 
> > It might look like I'm doing nothing, but at the cellular level I'm really
> > quite busy.
> > 	Hans Haas
> > Debian (Unstable) GNU/Linux 2.6.20-rc5 2x2011 bogomips load 1.97
> > the Jack Vance Integral Edition: http://www.integralarchive.org
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> 
> It is worse-- NAT doesn't work and HDDTEMP doesn't work anymore either.


Do I understand it correctly from the further emails in this thread that 
the NAT problem was the known netfilter options mess when upgrading from 
2.6.19 to 2.6.20, and enabling some more netfilter options fixed it?


hddtemp has a known bug:

Subject    : `hddtemp' no longer works
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/272
             http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7581
Submitter  : Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
             Nicolas Mailhot <Nicolas.Mailhot@LaPoste.net>
Handled-By : Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Status     : bug in hddtemp: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7581


> Justin.

cu
Adrian

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