tags 691128 + patch upstream
quit

Hi Robert,

On 2012-10-21 21:09, Robert de Bath wrote:
[...]
> # mount -oremount,size=2000G /dev/shm
> # cp -a /usr /dev/shm/usr
> 
> If you do the two commands above swapspace will NOT allocate more
> swapfiles and the system will OOM.
> 
> They make the limit on the size of a tmpfs unreasonably high, then fill
> it up with far too much data.
> 
> The problem appears to be that the memory usage is recorded in the
> item "Shmem" and this isn't in your calculations. If I add it in (as
> in the
> attached patch) the system survives.
[...]

Thank you for the report.

Unfortunately I cannot forward your report/patch since the upstream
homepage/bug tracker is down right now.


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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
C++ GNU/Linux userspace developer, Debian Developer


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