Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 25 Sep 2001 21:59:50 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: GFP_FAIL? |
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Hi!
> > I need to alloc as much memory as possible, *but not more*. I do not > > want to OOM-kill anything. How do I do this? Tried GFP_KERNEL, will > > oom-kill. GFP_USER will OOM-kill, too. > > Try GFP_ATOMIC; GFP_KERNEL sets the __GFP_WAIT flag and you don't > want that.
No, I want other apps to be moved to swap, dirty data written out etc. I really can't live with GFP_ATOMIC.
> But, if you're really asking how to know how large the current working set is, > so that you don't grab more than your applications are going to need and > eventually OOM, you'll need to set GFP_HAVE_CRYSTAL_BALL ;-)
I want to push just as much that I do not cause OOM. I'll stop applications real soon after that.
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