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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: VM Problems in 2.6.7 (Too active OOM Killer)
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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.