Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 11:48:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 11:48:43 -0500 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:6208 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 11:48:29 -0500 Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 17:48:16 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Yann Dirson Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, riel@nl.linux.org, andrea@e-mind.com Subject: Re: Looking for better 2.2-based VM (do_try_to_free_pages fails, machine hangs) Message-ID: <20001101174816.A18510@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20001101133307.A10265@bylbo.nowhere.earth> <20001101174339.A1167@bylbo.nowhere.earth> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20001101174339.A1167@bylbo.nowhere.earth>; from ydirson@altern.org on Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 05:43:39PM +0100 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 05:43:39PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > However, the OOM killer behaves in strange ways, it seems. In the 2 "make Fair enough as there isn't an oom killer in the kernel you're running :). So it can kill unlucky tasks as well. Since nobody cares to implement it, for 2.4.x on my TODO list there's an alternative oom killer based on the task fault rate. (btw, make sure you're using the -7 revision of the VM-global patch, as it includes the same MM corruption bugfix that is been included into 18pre18) Andrea - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/