Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Jul 2004 02:46:12 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: VM Problems in 2.6.7 (Too active OOM Killer) |
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On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 05:30:52PM -0700, Peter Zaitsev wrote: > In this case I also do not understand how swap space helps here ? If you
it helps because you're not in a lowmem shortage condition, adding swap only prevents the oom killer to be invoked.
If you were in a lowmem shortage condition you would be deadlocking with 2.6.7 AFIK. - 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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