Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:16:55 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Martin =?ISO-8859-1?B?TU9LUkVKX18=?= 
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix spurious OOM kills
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Martin MOKREJ__ <mmokrejs@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz> wrote:
>
>    I'm sorry for the delay. I had to re-invent my old memory tests.
>  I have just compared 2.4.26-gentoo-r9 kernel, plain 2.4.28 and
>  plain 2.6.10-rc2. The last has OOM problems, as it kills unnecessarilly
>  2 xterms "in addition" to the application which caused memory outsourcing.
> 
>     I'm not sure which patches sent to the list last days still make
>  sense to be tested.

Please test
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.10-rc2/2.6.10-rc2-mm2/broken-out/vmscan-ignore-swap-token-when-in-trouble.patch
against 2.6.10-rc2, or latest -linus.
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