Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:01:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][2/2] do not OOM kill if we skip writing many pages
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On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> Yes - Andrew's throttle_vm_writeout() should be handling that.

> You sure the above logic is working on RH kernels?

Exactly the same code.

> I can't see how it could fail with this in place.

Neither can I, except perhaps the IO subsystem is sized
to handle more IO than all the lowmem pages simultaneously ?

The patch I just posted to lkml ([5/?]) should fix another
issue related to this problem, and might just fix the problem.

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Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
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