From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: per-process shared information
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:47:11 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041014214711.GF6899@logos.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041013231042.GQ17849@dualathlon.random>
Hi Andrea!
No useful comments on the statm reporting issue.
> Ps. if somebody like Hugh volunteers implementing it, you're very
> welcome, just let me know (I'll eventually want to work on the oom
> handling too, which is pretty screwed right now,
Yes, we've got reports of bad OOM killing behaviour (is that what you're
talking about?)
One thing is the removal of "if (nr_swap_pages > 0) goto out" from oom_kill()
causes problems (spurious oom kill).
We need to throttle more, on page reclaiming progress I think.
Take a look at
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=109587921204602&w=2
What else you're seeing?
> I've plenty of bugs
> open on that area and the lowmem zone protection needs a rewrite too to
> be set to a sane default value no matter the pages_lows etc..).
Nick has been working on that lately I think. What is the problem?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-14 23:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-13 23:10 per-process shared information Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-14 21:47 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2004-10-14 23:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-14 23:17 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-15 10:45 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-14 21:49 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-10-14 22:11 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-14 22:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-15 10:51 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-15 11:56 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-10-15 13:19 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-10-15 14:28 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-15 14:40 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-10-15 14:52 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-15 17:02 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-15 16:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-15 16:31 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-10-15 17:10 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-15 19:29 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-10-15 17:13 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-15 17:51 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-10-15 18:14 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-15 18:30 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-15 18:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-15 18:47 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-15 19:23 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-15 20:41 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-15 20:52 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-15 21:16 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-15 21:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-15 21:40 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-15 22:04 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-10-19 15:09 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-15 16:04 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-19 15:18 ` Bill Davidsen
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