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Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 09:09:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Tobias Ringstrom <tori@ringstrom.mine.nu>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.11pre4 swapping out all over the place
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On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Tobias Ringstrom wrote:
>
> I can confirm that in 2.4.11-pre4, the used-once pages are causing
> page-out activity, as opposed to 2.4.11-pre2 which did not.

Yeah, try_to_free_pages() gives up much too early: Marcelo removed the
loop from it. That also shows the problems with the out_of_memory() logic
much more easily.

Can you try just undoing the changes to try_to_free_pages() itself?

		Linus

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