readahead and oom

From: Dave Young
Date: Tue Apr 26 2011 - 01:49:32 EST

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Hi,

When memory pressure is high, readahead could cause oom killing.
IMHO we should stop readaheading under such circumstancesãIf it's true
how to fix it?

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dave
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