From: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Organization: SUSE LINUX, s.r.o.
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] vmscan: bail out of page reclaim after swap_cluster_max pages
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:59:30 +0100
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Dne Wednesday 19 of November 2008 17:54:44 Mel Gorman napsal(a):
>[...]
> I was going to ask if it was easier to go OOM now, but even under very high
> stress, we should be making forward progress. It's just in smaller steps so
> I can't see it causing a problem.

Actually, I had to apply a very similar patch the other day to reduce the time 
the system was unresponsive because of the OOM-killer, so I tested OOM 
situations quite a lot, and it did not cause any problem.

Petr Tesarik
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