Re: VM Problems in 2.6.7 (Too active OOM Killer)

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 09:22:04PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > The oom killer is forbidden to run
> >  as long as `free` tells you that >= 4k of swap are still available to the
> >  OS.
> 
> That code was recently removed, so the OOM killer now kicks in if we run
> out of normal zone due to pinned allocations (stack pages, etc).

ah I didn't notice thanks for the info (I see it in the CVS), however he
was running 2.6.7 so the code I mentioned is still there in 2.6.7 and in
turn my suggestion will work fine there since it'll remove the oom
killer out of his way.
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