Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:12:49 +0100 | From | Chris Ross <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix spurious OOM kills |
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Andrew Morton escreveu: > Please ignore the previous patch and try the below.
Running 2.6.10-rc2-mm1 with just your new patch. It's got through the first tests, building umlsim whilst simultaneously doing an 'emerge sync' (this is a Gentoo box). I'll now try harder to break it.
> It looks like Rik's analysis is correct: when the caller doesn't have > the swap token it just cannot reclaim referenced pages and scans its > way into an oom. Defeating that logic when we've hit the highest > scanning priority does seem to fix the problem and those nice qsbench > numbers which the thrashing control gave us appear to be unaffected.
I assume Rik's analysis was not copied to the list? If it was I missed it. Is your summary fairly complete?
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