Re: ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption

From: Ville Herva (vherva@mail.niksula.cs.hut.fi)
Date: Fri Jul 27 2001 - 12:43:50 EST


On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 06:40:32PM +0100, you [Alan Cox] claimed:
> > After fresh boot to the default RH71 kernel (2.4.2-2 or whatever it is) on
> > console (no X running):
> >
> > > diff -Naur /usr/src/linux.rh-default /usr/src/linux-2.4.4 > diff
> > zsh: killed diff
> >
> > > dmesg | tail
> > kernel: out of memory, killed process n (xfs)
> > kernel: out of memory, killed process n (diff)
> >
> > Phew.
>
> No argument on that one. I'm still seeing it in vanilla 2.4.6 as well but
> 2.4.7 is looking a lot better.

I wasn't able to easily reproduce that on 2.4.4ac5 (that I upgraded into
almost immediately). It may be that the OOM rambo wasn't fully sane on that
one either, but at least it seemed to handle the silly "someone filled the
cache - gee, we must be oom" case rather better...

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