Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 31 Oct 2001 14:04:45 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: new OOM heuristic failure (was: Re: VM: qsbench) |
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On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I could probably argue that the machine really _is_ out of memory at this > point: no swap, and it obviously has to work very hard to free any pages. > Read the "out_of_memory()" code (which is _really_ simple), with the > realization that it only gets called when "try_to_free_pages()" fails and > I think you'll agree.
Absolutely agreed, an earlier out_of_memory() is probably a good thing for most systems. The only "but" is that Lorenzo's test program runs fine with other kernels, but you could argue that it's a corner case anyway...
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