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From: Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] improving oom detection in rmap10c.
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 18:01:38 -0500
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Rik van Riel wrote:

> On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> 
>> This patch should prevent oom situations where the vm does not see
>> pages released from the slab caches.
> 
>> Comments?
> 
> I have a feeling the OOM detection in rmap10c isn't working
> out because of another issue ... I think it has something to

I did not think this would solve all the OOM problems.  I do
think it will improve the situation in some instances.  The cost of
suppling the additional information is small - we do not want OOM
to trigger unless we really are OOM.  This patch can prevent the vm
from reporting some false OOMs...

Hope your audit discloses other problems.

Ed Tomlinson
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