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    Hi,

    On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 07:13:27PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
    > > there is no swap. If there is truly nothing kswapd can do to recover
    > > here, then we are truly OOM. Otherwise, kswapd should be able to free
    >
    > Indeed. But we wont fail the kmalloc with a NULL return

    Isn't that the preferred behaviour, though? If we are completely out
    of VM on a no-swap machine, we should be killing one of the existing
    processes rather than preventing any progress and keeping all of the
    old tasks alive but deadlocked.

    --Stephen

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