Re: VM in 2.4.7-pre hurts...

Alan Cox
2001-07-07T21:43:28Z

> > Its certainly misleading. I got Jeff to try making oom return
> > 4999 out of 5000 times regardless.
>
> In that case, he _is_ OOM. ;)

Hardly

> 1) (almost) no free memory
> 2) no free swap
> 3) very little pagecache + buffer cache

Large amounts of cache, which went away when the OOM code was neutered