From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Out of memory handling broken
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 16:03:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010926160306.D7290@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010925003416.A151@bug.ucw.cz> <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0109251702540.26091-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0109251702540.26091-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>
Hi!
> > I need to allocate as much memory as possible (but not more).
> > Okay, so I use out_of_memory, right?
>
> Nope, out_of_memory() is about virtual memory handling,
> not at all about physical memory.
Yes, so... What happens at physical memory exhaustion? System crash?
> > But, when I looked into out_of_memory... Of course its
> > wrong. out_of_memory() contains
> >
> > if (nr_swap_pages > 0)
> > return 0;
> >
> > ...which is obviously wrong. It is well possible to have free
> > swap _and_ be out of memory -- eat_memory() loop gets system to
> > this state easily.
>
> This is because you're using out_of_memory() for something
> it was never meant for. ;)
Okay, okay. Is there any solution (in 2.4.10) in doing what I want to
do?
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-26 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-24 22:34 Pavel Machek
2001-09-25 20:05 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-26 14:03 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2001-09-26 14:08 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-26 14:25 ` Pavel Machek
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