Re: VM in 2.4.7-pre hurts...

Rik van Riel
2001-07-07T21:45:38Z

On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> > > 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

So Jeff backed out my patch before testing yours? ;)

Rik
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