Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix spurious OOM kills | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Date | Wed, 15 Dec 2004 01:16:23 +0100 |
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Andrea,
On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 00:55 +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 10:30:18AM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > > Was there some swap-token (or can anyone think of any relevant) > > changes recently? > > The only thing I know about recent swap-token changes, is that Andrew > fixed a bug by ignoring the token thing at priority 0, this the > early-oom failures in my queue (the VM bug was introduced sometime > before or during 2.6.9-rc). The fix is already in mainline according to > my out of sync copy of kernel CVS.
cset 1.2055.40.21 vmscan: ignore swap token when in trouble
It solves one of the problems, but your fix is really the only complete fix I have in hands since this thread(s) started. + my simple changes to the whom to kill selection :)
Also your modification slow down the machine in case of low memory. This makes sense and does not hurt anybody. But it's still better than the crappy oom kills which I still have with rc3 even in "normal" desktop usage.
<RANT exclude="andrea"> We are discussing this since nearly two month. Is there a final fixup in sight before christmas ? And I mean christmas 2004.
I'm just waiting for somebody who advises me to put more memory into my boxes. </RANT>
tglx
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