Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755508AbXHUUtS (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:49:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752556AbXHUUtF (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:49:05 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-4-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:50723 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753148AbXHUUtD (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:49:03 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:48:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Peter Zijlstra cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC 0/7] Postphone reclaim laundry to write at high water marks In-Reply-To: <1187692586.6114.211.camel@twins> Message-ID: References: <20070820215040.937296148@sgi.com> <1187692586.6114.211.camel@twins> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 446 Lines: 12 On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > This almost insta-OOMs with anonymous workloads. What does the workload do? So writeout needs to begin earlier. There are likely issues with throttling. - 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/