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SubjectRe: [PATCH][2/2] do not OOM kill if we skip writing many pages
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 11:20:28PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> >I don't like this one, it's much less obvious than 1/2. After your
> >obviously right 1/2 we're already guaranteed at least a percentage of
> >the ram will not be dirty. Is the below really needed even after 1/2 +
> >Andrew's fix? Are you sure this isn't a workaround for the lack of
> >Andrew's fix.
>
> Agreed, Andrew's fix should in theory be enough and only my
> 1/2 should be needed.
>
> However, in practice people are still generating OOM kills
> even with both Andrew's fix and my own patch applied, so I
> suspect there's another hole left open somewhere...

Hi Rik,

What are the details of the OOM kills (output, workload, configuration, etc)?

Are these running 2.6.10-mm?


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