Re: scheduler went mad?

From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu Apr 12 2001 - 17:24:15 EST


On Fri, 13 Apr 2001 01:02:21 +0200, Szabolcs Szakacsits said:

> Not __alloc_pages() calls oom_kill() however do_page_fault(). Not the
> same. After the system tried *really* hard to get *one* free page and
> couldn't managed why loop forever? To eat CPU and waiting for

For what it's worth, this *IS NOT* the case I'm getting bit by:

While kswapd was hung, I already had (from /proc/meminfo)

MemFree: 34064 kB

I suspect that kswapd is getting hung spinning on some *specific*
requirement that it's falling short on?

/Valdis



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