Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.1 IO lockup on SMP systems | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Thu, 26 Feb 2004 16:37:31 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 15:37, Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 05:11:35AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > > > > > > Not sure why the oom-killer didn't do anything. > > > > There's still free swap space. The oom-killer has problems. > > That sounds odd. Surely if we have free swap, we don't > want the oom-killer to do anything ?
with highmem it's not so easy :) the lowzone can be entirely pinned by pagetables and such and the highmem zone can be free... and still you want to oomkill. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |