Stability and Memory Pressure in 8.2

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 9:19 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 09:31:29PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>> The previous round of testing we saw it twice, but could not reproduce
>> it. Both cases 8.2-759. The main difference I can think of is thatwe
>> were using Simple Mesh. One of the OOM killer crashes were during a
>> 'maze' game played over the mesh.
>
> I was trying that last night, visiting a remote farming family ... had
> five kids pounding various activities on two XOs running 8.2-760, over a
> period of about four hours.  No sign of OOM.
>
> I wasn't able to get a Simple Mesh to work.  While I could get the radio
> configured using the F1 key and clicking on Mesh Network 1, and each
> unit got an IP address, and I could ping, there was no sign of the XO
> icons, and sharing a Write activity yielded no change.

Hmm, did you verify that you weren't registered with an (unreachable)
school server?

Just a guess.
 --scott

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