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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:50:36 +0100
From: Chris Ross <chris@tebibyte.org>
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To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, andrea@novell.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix spurious OOM kills
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Marcelo Tosatti escreveu:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 04:06:48AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Before the swap token patches went in you remember spurious OOM reports  
> or things were working fine then?

The oom killer problems arose before and independently of the 
token-based-thrashing patches. I know this because I took a special 
interest in the tbtc patches too (which is why my test machine came to 
have 64MB RAM but 1GB swap).

Regards,
Chris R.
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