linux-kernel - Re: OOM in 2.6.19-rc*

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Date:	Sat, 11 Nov 2006 18:31:49 +0000 (GMT)
From:	Christian Kujau <evil@...ouse.de>
To:	Benoit Boissinot <bboissin@...il.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OOM in 2.6.19-rc*

On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Benoit Boissinot wrote:
> On 11/11/06, Christian Kujau <evil@...ouse.de> wrote:
> Just a thought, do you have a swap activated ? (there is a bug in edgy
> where the swap isn't mounted)

ah, forgot to mention this: yes, swap was activated (~300 MB swapfile, 
box has 1GB RAM) but I disabled it after the 2nd incident because I 
thought the machine would recover faster from OOM when no swap to fill 
up was available...didn't help much though :(

Thanks,
Christan.
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