Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Oct 1998 09:00:16 +0100 (CET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [patch] my latest oom stuff |
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On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > >>Could you try the above simple approach? > >Sure. > Seems to works fine here.
> + * Do the pageout for at most one jiffy. > */ > + start =jiffies; > do { > do_try_to_free_page(0);
> + if (free_memory_available() == 2 && buffer_under_max() > + && pgcache_under_max()) > break; > + } while (jiffies == start);
> Note also the fix to kswapd that now stop only if the buffer and page > cache are under max.
I like this patch; I see now where Linus and you are going. I guess I was just to frustrated with my switching my keyboard to dvorak last night to properly think :)
Rik -- typing slowly because my kbd is dvorak since sun 19:40... +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Linux memory management tour guide. H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl | | Scouting Vries cubscout leader. http://www.phys.uu.nl/~riel/ | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
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