Dear Jonathan, >> If you can identify where it was fixed then your patch for older >> versions should go to stable with a reference to the upstream fix (see >> Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt). > > How about this patch? > > It was applied in mainline during the 3.3 merge window, so kernels > newer than 3.2.y shouldn't need it. > > ... > commit ab8fabd46f811d5153d8a0cd2fac9a0d41fb593d upstream. > ... Yes, I beleive that is the correct patch, surely better than my simple subtraction of min_free_kbytes. Noting, that this does not "solve" all problems, the latest 3.8 kernel still crashes with OOM: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1098961/comments/18 Thanks, Paul Paul Szabo psz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>