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SubjectRe: [PATCH][2/2] do not OOM kill if we skip writing many pages
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> Yes - Andrew's throttle_vm_writeout() should be handling that.

> You sure the above logic is working on RH kernels?

Exactly the same code.

> I can't see how it could fail with this in place.

Neither can I, except perhaps the IO subsystem is sized
to handle more IO than all the lowmem pages simultaneously ?

The patch I just posted to lkml ([5/?]) should fix another
issue related to this problem, and might just fix the problem.

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