Re: Out of VM idea

George (greerga@nidhogg.ham.muohio.edu)
Tue, 28 Apr 1998 17:18:00 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:

>Following some observations from Michael Remski (sent
>to me by private e-mail), I've come to the conlusion
>that we really should do something about out-of-VM
>situations.

At the moment, (2.1.98), I can lock my 64 MB machine up with a 'make
MAKE='make -j20' zImage'.

At the time of memory death:
* It has 4 megabytes of free pages.
* It has 6 megabytes of buffer memory.
* But it dies because it has 0 swap left.

Those hard limits on memory how much memory to not grab should definitely
go.

-George

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