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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] fix spurious OOM kills
    On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

    > So even when reaping referenced pages on zero priority scanning
    > the OOM killer might be triggered in extreme cases. And as the
    > number of tasks increases the chances things go wrong increase.

    Ignoring the referenced bit should also make the system
    "immune" from the "fake" references that the swap token
    holding task will show.

    However, since it also ignores real referenced bits, it
    might mess up VM balancing a bit, which is what Andrew
    was worried about.

    > Please test Andrew's patch, its hopefully good enough for most
    > scenarios. Extreme cases are probably still be problematic.

    Actually, because Andrew's patch makes the real referenced
    bit stand, but ignores the "fake" reference that the swap
    token gives, I suspect it'll make this swap token corner
    case a lot "softer" than my patch.

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