I was curious if I could answer Sridhar's question as I had the same question.
The introduction of the problem appears to be in Ubuntu's packaging of select upstream commits from 4.7 to address bug #1647400. >From the comments in that case, it appears 6b4e3181d7bd5ca5ab6f45929e4a5ffa7ab4ab7f should have also been selected. >From looking at the history I gather if I had been running stock 4.4 kernels I would not have been effected by the OOM issue. I'm basing this on tracking down 0a0337e0d1d134465778a16f5cbea95086e8e9e0 in the main line kernel. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1655842 Title: "Out of memory" errors after upgrade to 4.4.0-59 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1655842/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs