Comment 64 for bug 719446

Tim - You presume correctly.

I've had problems with this since the introduction of 2.6.35-23, and it's been a real pain in the posterior - I've become better acquainted with Alt-SysReq than I really wanted to be. I'm running on hardware very similar to that of the original bug report.

I'd run my own set of simple tests before finding this thread, and determined that the freezes I was seeing were happening when free memory dropped to near zero, so it's almost certainly the same problem.