On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 14:11 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:

It's not that common to trigger this, I only saw a few reports. In fact
Stefan's report is the first one that comes with a method to reproduce
it.

I tested with redis-benchmark on a guest with 256MB RAM and only saw a
few "failed to linearize", never saw a single one with 1GB guest.

Well, I am just saying. This is asking order-5 allocations, and yes,
this is going to fail after few days of uptime, no matter what you try.