Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Jul 1998 20:03:50 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Linux behaviour in low memory situations. |
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On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On 19 Jul 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > >behaviour (but again, because of mm changes in 2.1.109, please use that > > I just tried yesterday and 2.1.109 seems to handle the out of memory > right (sure it don' t deadlock).
It does the right thing for me too.
BUT. There may be cicrumstances where it doesn't do the right thing. I haven't tested swapfiles (as opposed to swap partitions) in a long time, for example, and there may be other usage patterns that trigger problems.
So I think 2.1.109 should be doing the right thing, but I'm still very much interested in people trying things out, because it may be that it does the right thing 99% of the time, but then on 1% of the machines it does something wrong due to a setup difference or similar.
This is certainly the right time to test and complain..
Linus
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