Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:22:41 -0200
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, robert_hentosh@dell.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH][2/2] do not OOM kill if we skip writing many pages
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On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 11:20:28PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> >I don't like this one, it's much less obvious than 1/2. After your
> >obviously right 1/2 we're already guaranteed at least a percentage of
> >the ram will not be dirty. Is the below really needed even after 1/2 +
> >Andrew's fix? Are you sure this isn't a workaround for the lack of
> >Andrew's fix.
> 
> Agreed, Andrew's fix should in theory be enough and only my
> 1/2 should be needed.
> 
> However, in practice people are still generating OOM kills
> even with both Andrew's fix and my own patch applied, so I
> suspect there's another hole left open somewhere...

Hi Rik,

What are the details of the OOM kills (output, workload, configuration, etc)? 

Are these running 2.6.10-mm? 


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