From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, robert_hentosh@dell.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH][2/2] do not OOM kill if we skip writing many pages
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:22:41 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050103122241.GE29158@logos.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0501022319180.10640@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com>
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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-03 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-20 15:17 [PATCH][2/2] do not OOM kill if we skip writing many pages Rik van Riel
2005-01-02 17:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-03 4:20 ` Rik van Riel
2005-01-03 12:22 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2005-01-03 16:25 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-03 16:40 ` Rik van Riel
2005-01-03 17:10 ` Rik van Riel
2005-01-03 18:51 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-03 22:01 ` Rik van Riel
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