#11125 HIGH 1.75-so: out of memory on XO-1.75 when running code that shouldn't

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#11125: out of memory on XO-1.75 when running code that shouldn't
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 Reporter:  wad                     |                 Owner:               
     Type:  defect                  |                Status:  new          
 Priority:  high                    |             Milestone:  1.75-software
Component:  not assigned            |               Version:  1.75-B1      
 Keywords:  XO-1.75, out of memory  |           Next_action:  diagnose     
 Verified:  0                       |   Deployment_affected:               
Blockedby:                          |              Blocking:               
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 When running long-term memory tests on laptops, I've seen the test
 programs killed by the system.  Looking at the logs, it appears that these
 were killed due to an out-of-memory situation.

 These laptops were running OS19, on top of Q4B05 (stock).  The
 applications being run were memtester (on 200M) and test.sh from the Flash
 wear levelling test (http://dev.laptop.org/~wad/test.sh, part of
 http://dev.laptop.org/~wad/nand.tgz).  test.sh calls dd, cp, and cmp.
 While X was running, the test programs are being run on alternate screen
 consoles.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11125>
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