linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Reproducible OOM with partial workaround

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Message-Id: <201301110146.r0B1kF4T032208@como.maths.usyd.edu.au>
Date:	Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:46:15 +1100
From:	paul.szabo@...ney.edu.au
To:	dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	695182@...s.debian.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Reproducible OOM with partial workaround

Dear Dave,

> ... I don't believe 64GB of RAM has _ever_ been booted on a 32-bit
> kernel without either violating the ABI (3GB/1GB split) or doing
> something that never got merged upstream ...

Sorry to be so contradictory:

psz@...o:~$ uname -a
Linux como.maths.usyd.edu.au 3.2.32-pk06.10-t01-i386 #1 SMP Sat Jan 5 18:34:25 EST 2013 i686 GNU/Linux
psz@...o:~$ free -l
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:      64446900    4729292   59717608          0      15972     480520
Low:        375836     304400      71436
High:     64071064    4424892   59646172
-/+ buffers/cache:    4232800   60214100
Swap:    134217724          0  134217724
psz@...o:~$ 

(though I would not know about violations).

But OK, I take your point that I should move with the times.

Cheers, Paul

Paul Szabo   psz@...hs.usyd.edu.au   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia
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