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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 15:21:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: pre5 VM livelock
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On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> I agree it's oom, I think it's the infinite loop, it probably thinks
> this memory is freeable but maybe it's all anonymous mlocked memory, or
> maybe there's no swap at all that is equivalent for the vm.

It doesn't have to be mlocked - Jeff has zero swap left.

		Linus

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