Re: mmotm 2009-09-09-22-56 uploaded

[Suresh Jayaraman]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:49:39 +0530 Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:31 AM,  <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2009-09-09-22-56 has been uploaded to
>>>
>>>   http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
>>>
>>> and will soon be available at
>>>
>>>   git://git.zen-sources.org/zen/mmotm.git
>>>
>> With this snapshot plus fixes, I'm unable to limit the memory using the
>> kernel command line switch "mem=nn" on a x86_64 box. Is this the
>> expected behavior?
>>
>> Using "cgroup_disable=memory" together with "mem=nn" switch didn't help.
>> Am I supposed to use some other switch along with this?
>>
> 
> hm, perhaps that -mm was needing this?
> 

Yes, it does. /me yet to catch up with the latest -mm.

> commit eda6da9286ad5b35b1eb70f6368958a8ee41a9dd
> Author:     Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> AuthorDate: Sat Sep 19 11:07:57 2009 -0700
> Commit:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> CommitDate: Sat Sep 19 20:31:33 2009 +0200
> 

After applying this patch "mem=nn" works.

Thanks,

-- 
Suresh Jayaraman
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