Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 26 Sep 2001 16:25:59 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Out of memory handling broken |
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Hi!
> We swap something out. > > But indeed, when the kernel needs memory for itself > and no more memory is available, we'd crash. This is > not something I've ever seen any system get close to, > however...
Yep...
> > Okay, okay. Is there any solution (in 2.4.10) in doing what I want to > > do? > > GPF_ATOMIC and giving kswapd a chance to run whenever the > atomic allocations fail ?
But how do I know when to stop? I'd have to place timeout there :-(. How do I know no more memory is available? Pavel -- Causalities in World Trade Center: 6453 dead inside the building, cryptography in U.S.A. and free speech in Czech Republic. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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