Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:22:41 -0200 | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][2/2] do not OOM kill if we skip writing many pages |
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On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 11:20:28PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > >I don't like this one, it's much less obvious than 1/2. After your > >obviously right 1/2 we're already guaranteed at least a percentage of > >the ram will not be dirty. Is the below really needed even after 1/2 + > >Andrew's fix? Are you sure this isn't a workaround for the lack of > >Andrew's fix. > > Agreed, Andrew's fix should in theory be enough and only my > 1/2 should be needed. > > However, in practice people are still generating OOM kills > even with both Andrew's fix and my own patch applied, so I > suspect there's another hole left open somewhere...
Hi Rik,
What are the details of the OOM kills (output, workload, configuration, etc)?
Are these running 2.6.10-mm?
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