Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753070AbZF0Skm (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:40:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752313AbZF0Ske (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:40:34 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:54563 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751955AbZF0Ske (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:40:34 -0400 Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <20090627115306.GA1741@cmpxchg.org> References: <20090627115306.GA1741@cmpxchg.org> <7561.1245768237@redhat.com> <20090624023251.GA16483@localhost> <20090624114055.225D.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> To: Johannes Weiner Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, KOSAKI Motohiro , Wu Fengguang , Andrew Morton , LKML , Christoph Lameter , "peterz@infradead.org" , "riel@redhat.com" , "tytso@mit.edu" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "elladan@eskimo.com" , "npiggin@suse.de" , "minchan.kim@gmail.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] make mapped executable pages the first class citizen Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:40:17 +0100 Message-ID: <28520.1246128017@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 764 Lines: 19 Johannes Weiner wrote: > No, it has 600MB free pages after an OOM - which only means that the > OOM killer did a good job ;-) The system usually gets into a pretty much dead state after a couple of OOMs of so. There's also the little fact that prior to that commit, the OOMs don't happen at all as far as I can tell. I don't know for certain that the OOMs don't happen on the commits that have come up good. Sadly, all I can say is that after running N commits, I haven't seen an OOM. David -- 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/