From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 04:54:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 04:54:34 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:61255 "EHLO flinx.biederman.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 04:54:14 -0400 To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9 In-Reply-To: <9o1dev$23l$1@penguin.transmeta.com> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 16 Sep 2001 02:45:51 -0600 In-Reply-To: <9o1dev$23l$1@penguin.transmeta.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) writes: > Don't look at how many pages of swap were used. That's a statistic, > nothing more. It is a statistic until you run out of them. Obviously that isn't the problem here, or we'd hear complaints about the OOM killer. But the number of pages used can make a difference. Eric