Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Jun 1998 17:05:41 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Swap signature eaten by 2.1.105 |
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On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Tim Waugh wrote: > > >After netscape had used up about all of my swap space, my Pentium with > >32Mb went silent. The disks would make noises for under a second, about > >every 20 seconds or so.
> >That worries me. > > Me too ;-).
<AOL>Me Too!</AOL>
Well, besides this AOL block, there's some actual code on my homepage. This code chooses which process to kill. Unfortunately, I haven't yet come up with a criteria for when to start killing processes... This is not as easy as it seems, because Linux's MM system has _many_ dynamics going on at once and swap cache and mmap()ed files pollute the dynamics in such a way that there's no easy way to decide when we need to kill off something :(
The file: <http://www.phys.uu.nl/~riel/patches/oom_kill.c>
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