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Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 21:13:04 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] improving oom detection in rmap10c.
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On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> 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.

It certainly seems to work here, I'm including your patch
into rmap-11 ;)

> Hope your audit discloses other problems.

I haven't found any yet, the code seems ok even after
staring at it for an hour or so.

regards,

Rik
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