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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix spurious OOM kills
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 01:48:31 +0100
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On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 01:37 +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 01:16:23AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > It solves one of the problems, but your fix is really the only complete
> > fix I have in hands since this thread(s) started. + my simple changes to
> > the whom to kill selection :)
> 
> That patch prevents the machine to trigger "early" "suprious" oom kills
> (I had reports of suprious oom kills myself, oom killer triggered
> despite lots of swapcache was freeable), so it cannot help when a true
> oom happens like with your workload. In your workload the oom isn't
> a suprious error.

I know. In meantime I understood which patch solves which problem :)

tglx