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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	rathamahata@php4.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gluk@php4.ru,
	anton@megashop.ru, mfedyk@matchmail.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.1 IO lockup on SMP systems
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 16:37:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1077809851.4443.4.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040226143710.GA3157@redhat.com>

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On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 15:37, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 05:11:35AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>  > Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
>  > >
>  > > Not sure why the oom-killer didn't do anything.
>  > 
>  > There's still free swap space.  The oom-killer has problems.
> 
> That sounds odd. Surely if we have free swap, we don't
> want the oom-killer to do anything ?

with highmem it's not so easy :)
the lowzone can be entirely pinned by pagetables and such and the
highmem zone can be free... and still you want to oomkill.

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-26 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-31 16:40 2.6.1 IO lockup on SMP systems Sergey S. Kostyliov
2004-02-01  0:17 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-21 16:45   ` Sergey S. Kostyliov
2004-02-21 19:30     ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-22 17:39       ` Alexander Y. Fomichev
2004-02-23 17:27         ` Sergey S. Kostyliov
2004-02-23 21:30           ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-24 11:56             ` Sergey S. Kostyliov
2004-02-23 22:26           ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-24  7:23             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-02-24  6:53               ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-24 11:54             ` Sergey S. Kostyliov
2004-02-26 12:19               ` Sergey S. Kostyliov
2004-02-26 12:53                 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-26 13:11                   ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-26 14:37                     ` Dave Jones
2004-02-26 15:37                       ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2004-02-26 14:30                   ` Sergey S. Kostyliov
2004-02-26 20:03                     ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-28 14:56                       ` Sergey S. Kostyliov
2004-04-08  9:08                         ` 2.6.X kernel memory leak? (was: Re: 2.6.1 IO lockup on SMP systems) Sergey S. Kostyliov
2004-04-09  7:17                           ` 2.6.X kernel memory leak? Sergey S. Kostyliov
2004-04-09  9:09                             ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-09 12:15                               ` Sergey S. Kostyliov

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