Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:01:50 -0500 (EST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][2/2] do not OOM kill if we skip writing many pages |
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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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