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Date:	Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:53:26 +0530
From:	Dhaval Giani <dhaval@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	gregkh@...e.de, htejun@...il.com, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, maneesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ibm.com>,
	Gautham Shenoy <ego@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-stable causes oomkiller to be invoked

On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 06:03:33PM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote:
> Hi Greg, Tejun,
> 
> The following script causes oomkiller to be invoked on my system here.
> 
> while echo; do cat /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_loaded; done
> 

 while echo; do cat /sys/kernel/uevent_seqnum ; done;

causes oomkiller to be invoked on 2.6.22-stable, 2.6.23-stable and
2.6.24-rc5 as well. It seems not be particularly related to any single
file in sysfs.

Thanks,
-- 
regards,
Dhaval
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