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Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 18:29:30 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: VM in 2.4.7-pre hurts...
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On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> > 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.

In that case, he _is_ OOM.  ;)

1) (almost) no free memory
2) no free swap
3) very little pagecache + buffer cache

regards,

Rik
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