Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Can't make use of swap memory in 2.6.7-bk19 | From | Peter Osterlund <> | Date | 08 Jul 2004 14:59:11 +0200 |
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William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> writes:
> Peter Osterlund wrote: > >> I created a test program that allocates a 300MB buffer and writes to > >> all bytes sequentially. On my computer, which has 256MB RAM and 512MB > >> swap, the program gets OOM killed after dirtying about 140-180MB, and > >> the kernel reports: > > On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:14:16PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > > Someone hand me a paper bag... Peter, can you give this patch a try? > > Heh, one goes in while I'm not looking, and look what happens.
Actually, the failure is caused by this change:
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@40db004cKFYB35xMHcRXNijl81BLag?nav=index.html|ChangeSet@-3w
It only fails when /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode is 1.
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