Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 5 Oct 2001 12:59:29 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: pre4 oom too soon |
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On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > I'm not sure exactly what to blame in out_of_memory(), but it does > look wrong to depend so much on whether nr_swap_pages happens to be 0 > at that instant or not, and a lot of that full swap is duplicated in > the swap cache. Probably that should be taken into consideration?
That sounds sane. If we have swap cache pages, we're not out of memory yet.
Linus
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