Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Jul 2004 21:22:04 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: VM Problems in 2.6.7 (Too active OOM Killer) |
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Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote: > > The oom killer is forbidden to run > as long as `free` tells you that >= 4k of swap are still available to the > OS.
That code was recently removed, so the OOM killer now kicks in if we run out of normal zone due to pinned allocations (stack pages, etc).
This promptly caused oom-killings to occur during heavy swapstorms with laptop_mode=1, which is as yet unfixed. - 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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