Re: Linux 2.4.19-pre3-ac1

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Sun Mar 17 2002 - 22:03:34 EST


On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Mike Fedyk wrote:

> Can you reproduce with just rmap12h from http://www.surriel.com/patches/
> on top of 2.4.18?

He probably can.

> Rik, can you confirm that OOM kill should work with rmap12 (the rmap VM
> is in -ac...)?

There's a known issue with OOM not knowing about the number of
freeable pages and killing processes while freeable pages are
still being written out to disk. This is something that really
wants fixing, when I figure out how to do this nicely.

regards,

Rik

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