Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 25 Sep 2000 19:21:14 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: the new VMt |
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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
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