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Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 23:36:31 +0000
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
From: Jonathan Morton <chromi@cyberspace.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init
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>>         free = atomic_read(&buffermem_pages);
>>         free += atomic_read(&page_cache_size);
>>         free += nr_free_pages();
>> -       free += nr_swap_pages;
>
>> +       /* Since getting swap info is expensive, see if our allocation
>>can happen in physical RAM */
>
>Actually, getting swap info is as cheap as reading the variable
>nr_swap_pages. I should fix this in the OOM killer ;)

Just fixed that for myself (in both places) and about to test.  I'm almost
sure I actually encountered an error related to this, but I'll retest and
make sure...

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