Re: [PATCH 02/10] mm: system wide ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK

Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06T18:42:55Z

On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote:

> Currently your system likely would have died here, so ending up with a
> reserve page temporarily on the wrong node is already an improvement.

The system would have died? Why? The application in the cpuset that
ran out of memory should have died not the system.