Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261861AbUJYXyv (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:54:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261292AbUJYWXg (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:23:36 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:24235 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261294AbUJYWJw (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:09:52 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:13:43 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Rik van Riel Cc: javier@marcet.info, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel@kolivas.org Subject: Re: Mem issues in 2.6.9 (ever since 2.6.9-rc3) and possible cause Message-Id: <20041025151343.7a501719.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20041023125948.GC9488@marcet.info> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 566 Lines: 13 Rik van Riel wrote: > > - if (referenced && page_mapping_inuse(page)) > + if (referenced && sc->priority && page_mapping_inuse(page)) Makes heaps of sense, but I'd like to exactly understand why people are getting oomings before doing something like this. I think we're still waiting for a testcase? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/