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

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

paul.szabo@sydney.edu.au wrote:
> 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.

Right.  So please contact the mm folks (cc-ing us). :)  They know much
more about this stuff than we do.

Thanks,
Jonathan