Re: Can't make use of swap memory in 2.6.7-bk19

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 03:36:10AM +0200, Peter Osterlund wrote:
> I created a test program that allocates a 300MB buffer and writes to
> all bytes sequentially. On my computer, which has 256MB RAM and 512MB
> swap, the program gets OOM killed after dirtying about 140-180MB, and
> the kernel reports:
> Out of Memory: Killed process 3421 (memalloc2).
> I ran "vmstat 1" during the test:

akpm, shall I revisit GFP_WIRED?


-- wli
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