linux-kernel - Re: Bug#695182: [RFC] Reproducible OOM with just a few sleeps

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Message-ID: <1359680851.31386.51.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 01 Feb 2013 01:07:31 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	paul.szabo@...ney.edu.au
Cc:	695182@...s.debian.org, dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, pavel@....cz
Subject: Re: Bug#695182: [RFC] Reproducible OOM with just a few sleeps

On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 10:06 +1100, paul.szabo@...ney.edu.au wrote:
> Dear Ben,
> 
> > Based on your experience I might propose to change the automatic kernel
> > selection for i386 so that we use 'amd64' on a system with >16GB RAM and
> > a capable processor.
> 
> Don't you mean change to amd64 for >4GB (or any RAM), never using PAE?
> PAE is broken for any amount of RAM.
[...]

No it isn't.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
                                                           - Albert Einstein

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