Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936961AbWLDPFC (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Dec 2006 10:05:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S936957AbWLDPFA (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Dec 2006 10:05:00 -0500 Received: from smtp110.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.220]:27364 "HELO smtp110.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S936921AbWLDPE6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Dec 2006 10:04:58 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=KWNnKcN9wF0bUcIebsInj/CMUvkuCTf18FLddFUN6ILEvzstcrMDpnehQW4IZJbKf9LmC/S8l8rWp3dcD9GqxnA9YunXPe+iLjz/LDgeYAS0SaikFPe8+dDWCJd3eqlJvBIYD+Y8dTk0lawTF2q6cr0ENYcy5Blv15ttgU2koPU= ; X-YMail-OSG: ULIs1bEVM1ntOwaJpj2Dnp.fQFA2g9sh2p48zelwG.Aq9.6aTZe9YqjLunbQ45zfR7E3ofMxsDmmDdlRBEmanoDrGdlsY_3Zuc8i9LVlYYRniHqMVo3HcjHLMw1KQvRlanxJ1b4.Wo4IW0s- Message-ID: <457438E9.1010503@yahoo.com.au> Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 02:04:09 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007 Debian/1.7.12-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aucoin@Houston.RR.com CC: "'Tim Schmielau'" , "'Andrew Morton'" , torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, clameter@sgi.com Subject: Re: la la la la ... swappiness References: <200612041445.kB4EjaGi009655@ms-smtp-05.texas.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <200612041445.kB4EjaGi009655@ms-smtp-05.texas.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1168 Lines: 30 Aucoin wrote: >>From: Nick Piggin [mailto:nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au] >>We had customers see similar incorrect OOM problems, so I sent in some >>patches merged after 2.6.16. Can you upgrade to latest kernel? (otherwise >>I guess backporting could be an option for you). > > > I will raise the question of moving the kernel forward one more time before > release. Can you point me to the patches you mentioned? These two are the main ones: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=408d85441cd5a9bd6bc851d677a10c605ed8db5f http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4ff1ffb4870b007b86f21e5f27eeb11498c4c077 They shouldn't be too hard to backport. I'd be interested to know how OOM and page reclaim behaves after these patches (or with a newer kernel). Thanks, Nick -- Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/