From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265907AbUGHIMk (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2004 04:12:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265909AbUGHIMk (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2004 04:12:40 -0400 Received: from av7-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net ([81.228.10.109]:12497 "EHLO av7-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265907AbUGHIMj (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2004 04:12:39 -0400 To: Nick Piggin Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Can't make use of swap memory in 2.6.7-bk19 References: <40ECADF8.7010207@yahoo.com.au> From: Peter Osterlund Date: 08 Jul 2004 10:12:35 +0200 In-Reply-To: <40ECADF8.7010207@yahoo.com.au> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nick Piggin writes: > Peter Osterlund wrote: > > I created a test program that allocates a 300MB buffer and writes to > > all bytes sequentially. On my computer, which has 256MB RAM and 512MB > > swap, the program gets OOM killed after dirtying about 140-180MB, and > > the kernel reports: > > > > Someone hand me a paper bag... Peter, can you give this patch a try? Doesn't help. My test program still fails in the same way. -- Peter Osterlund - petero2@telia.com http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340