lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2000]   [Sep]   [25]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: the new VMt
Hi,

On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 07:13:27PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > there is no swap. If there is truly nothing kswapd can do to recover
> > here, then we are truly OOM. Otherwise, kswapd should be able to free
>
> Indeed. But we wont fail the kmalloc with a NULL return

Isn't that the preferred behaviour, though? If we are completely out
of VM on a no-swap machine, we should be killing one of the existing
processes rather than preventing any progress and keeping all of the
old tasks alive but deadlocked.

--Stephen

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 12:38    [W:0.142 / U:1.080 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site