Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261505AbVACRLZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 12:11:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261506AbVACRLY (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 12:11:24 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:2531 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261505AbVACRLS (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 12:11:18 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 12:10:59 -0500 (EST) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com To: Andrea Arcangeli cc: Marcelo Tosatti , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, robert_hentosh@dell.com Subject: Re: [PATCH][2/2] do not OOM kill if we skip writing many pages In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20050102172929.GL5164@dualathlon.random> <20050103122241.GE29158@logos.cnet> <20050103162500.GX5164@dualathlon.random> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 841 Lines: 20 On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Rik van Riel wrote: >> And did they apply Con's patch? (i.e. my 3/4 I posted few days ago) > > Con's patch is not relevant for this bug, since there are so few > mapped pages (and those almost certainly live in highmem, which > the VM is not scanning). To quantify this, literally 99.8% of the inactive lowmem pages are in writeback stage. Yet the VM is OOM killing. -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan - 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/