Re: mm 2.2.17pre6

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Mon Jun 26 2000 - 07:57:23 EST


On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> > > Is it possible for me to reproduce here?
> >
> > "If I can't reproduce it on my own PC I'll stick my head in
> > the sand and the bug doesn't exist"
>
> Its rather hard to fix a bug you can reproduce.

Usually some vmstat output and a description of what's
happening from the person experiencing the bug is enough.

Also, mmap002 on low memory machines seems to be a nice
way of causing the same thing (program gets killed even
though backing store is available).

regards,

Rik

--
The Internet is not a network of computers. It is a network
of people. That is its real strength.

Wanna talk about the kernel? irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies http://www.conectiva.com/ http://www.surriel.com/

- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Mon Jun 26 2000 - 21:00:08 EST