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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 09:33:41 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: time tells all about kernel VM's
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On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, safemode wrote:

> A.  OOM did not kick in and kill kghostview.  Why you may ask?  Read on to B.
> B.  ....  So what
> happens is that the kernel cant swap because the hdd io is being strangled by
> the process that's going out of control (kghostview) which means that the VM
> is stuck doing this redistribution at a snails pace and the OOM situation
> never occurs

> I see this as a pretty serious bug

Fully agreed. Fixes are welcome.

Rik
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