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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>,
	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: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 19:30:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040708023001.GN21066@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40ECADF8.7010207@yahoo.com.au>

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.


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-08  2:35 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 [this message]
2004-07-08 12:59     ` Peter Osterlund
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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