Re: 2.6.20 OOM with 8Gb RAM

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Fri Apr 13 2007 - 19:40:38 EST


On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:54:33 -0700 William Lee Irwin III <wli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> After all this time, bdevs are still lowmem etc. Crying shame.

On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 04:32:42PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> One would need to hunt down every use of b_data in filesystems and switch
> them to kmap the page.
> Possibly it could be done on a per-fs basis.

Queued right behind a dozen other massive sweeps for me to do.


-- wli
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