Re: oom-killer 2.6.8.1

[Anders Saaby <as@cohaesio.com>]

On Wednesday 18 August 2004 23:11, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 August 2004 16:05, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> >> Index: oom-2.6.8-rc1/mm/vmscan.c
> >> ===================================================================
> >> --- oom-2.6.8-rc1.orig/mm/vmscan.c	2004-07-14 06:17:13.876343912 -0700
> >> +++ oom-2.6.8-rc1/mm/vmscan.c	2004-07-14 06:22:15.986416200 -0700
> >> @@ -417,7 +417,8 @@
> >>  				goto keep_locked;
> >>  			if (!may_enter_fs)
> >>  				goto keep_locked;
> >> -			if (laptop_mode && !sc->may_writepage)
> >> +			if (laptop_mode && !sc->may_writepage &&
> >> +							!PageSwapCache(page))
> >>  				goto keep_locked;
> >>
> >>  			/* Page is dirty, try to write it out here */
>
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 04:24:24PM +0200, Anders Saaby wrote:
> > laptop_mode is not set on this server <- :-)
> > - So I guess this is not relevant for my setup?
>
> Probably not. Please try to collect /proc/slabinfo snapshots while the
> system is still functional as it degrades.
>
OK, I am now collecting /proc/slabinfo every hour to some logfiles - I will 
send you the results when I have some interesting data.

/Saaby

>
> -- wli