From: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Can't make use of swap memory in 2.6.7-bk19
Date: 08 Jul 2004 14:59:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2briq7izk.fsf@telia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040708023001.GN21066@holomorphy.com>
William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> writes:
> Peter Osterlund wrote:
> >> I created a test program that allocates a 300MB buffer and writes to
> >> all bytes sequentially. On my computer, which has 256MB RAM and 512MB
> >> swap, the program gets OOM killed after dirtying about 140-180MB, and
> >> the kernel reports:
>
> On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:14:16PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Someone hand me a paper bag... Peter, can you give this patch a try?
>
> Heh, one goes in while I'm not looking, and look what happens.
Actually, the failure is caused by this change:
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@40db004cKFYB35xMHcRXNijl81BLag?nav=index.html|ChangeSet@-3w
It only fails when /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode is 1.
--
Peter Osterlund - petero2@telia.com
http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-08 12:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-08 1:36 Can't make use of swap memory in 2.6.7-bk19 Peter Osterlund
2004-07-08 1:43 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-08 2:14 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-08 2:30 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-08 12:59 ` Peter Osterlund [this message]
2004-07-08 19:39 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-09 0:57 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-09 1:53 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-09 2:06 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-09 2:09 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-09 2:12 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-09 2:50 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-09 4:51 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-09 2:14 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-08 8:12 ` Peter Osterlund
2004-07-08 8:20 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-08 8:23 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-08 9:30 ` Peter Osterlund
2004-07-14 5:20 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-14 10:39 ` Peter Osterlund
2004-07-14 10:57 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-14 12:55 ` Peter Osterlund
2004-07-14 13:22 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-14 20:00 ` Peter Osterlund
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