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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Peter Zaitsev <peter@mysql.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VM Problems in 2.6.7 (Too active OOM Killer)
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 02:46:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040715004612.GV974@dualathlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1089851451.15336.3962.camel@abyss.home>

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.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-15  0:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-14  2:23 VM Problems in 2.6.7 (Too active OOM Killer) Peter Zaitsev
2004-07-14  2:40 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-14  3:20   ` Peter Zaitsev
2004-07-14  3:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-14  3:44   ` Peter Zaitsev
2004-07-14  4:10     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-14  4:22       ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-14  4:47         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-14  4:17     ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-14 23:47       ` Peter Zaitsev
2004-07-14 22:44         ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-15  0:06           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-15  0:30           ` Peter Zaitsev
2004-07-15  0:46             ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2004-07-15  1:54             ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-15  2:13               ` Peter Zaitsev
2004-07-15  2:33                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-15  2:39                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-15  2:44                     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-13 22:23                       ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-19 20:27                   ` Bill Davidsen
2004-07-18 16:13               ` Kurt Garloff
2004-07-20  9:14                 ` R. J. Wysocki
2004-07-20 13:29                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-20 13:53                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-20 13:29                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-19 20:21               ` Bill Davidsen
2004-07-15  0:04         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-15  0:43           ` Peter Zaitsev
2004-07-15  0:43           ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-15  1:04             ` Peter Zaitsev
2004-07-15  1:29               ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-14  3:50   ` William Lee Irwin III

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