From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263540AbUGICu4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2004 22:50:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263555AbUGICu4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2004 22:50:56 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:19689 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263540AbUGICuz (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2004 22:50:55 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 19:50:46 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Andrew Morton Cc: nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, petero2@telia.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Can't make use of swap memory in 2.6.7-bk19 Message-ID: <20040709025046.GU21066@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Andrew Morton , nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, petero2@telia.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <40ECADF8.7010207@yahoo.com.au> <20040708023001.GN21066@holomorphy.com> <20040708193956.GO21066@holomorphy.com> <40EDED5D.80605@yahoo.com.au> <20040709015317.GR21066@holomorphy.com> <40EDFDBE.5040805@yahoo.com.au> <20040709020905.GT21066@holomorphy.com> <20040708191254.2475c8d1.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040708191254.2475c8d1.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Enumerate those more basic things. On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 07:12:54PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > 1: work out why it's prematurely calling out_of_memory() when laptop_mode=1. The obvious difference in writeback policy. I've apparently touched on policy, and paid for that mistake with an overpoweringly Sterculian whiff of penguins. Now backing away slowly... -- wli