Bug#695182: Write couple of 1GB files for OOM crash

[paul.szabo@sydney.edu.au]

Dear Jonathan,

> ... once you have a reproducible test I imagine the mm folks will
> already be very interested and they may be able to help ...

But, I do already have a reproducible test! Write a few files, as per
the initial message in this http://bugs.debian.org/695182 ; I also have
a patch/solution/workaround for that particular test.

Now I observed another way of making a machine with 64GB crash (sorry,
not crash but to suffer an "OOM episode"). I am pretty sure this other
"test" is reproducible, but is cumbersome to set up and tedious to do.

Cheers, Paul

Paul Szabo   psz@maths.usyd.edu.au   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia