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Subject: Re: VM in 2.4.7-pre hurts...
To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 22:25:32 +0100 (BST)
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> instead. That way the vmstat output might be more useful, although vmstat
> obviously won't know about the new "SwapCache:" field..
> 
> Can you try that, and see if something else stands out once the misleading
> accounting is taken care of?

Its certainly misleading. I got Jeff to try making oom return 4999 out of 5000
times regardless.
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