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 16:25:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010926162559.F7290@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010926160306.D7290@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0109261106550.19147-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0109261106550.19147-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva>
Hi!
> We swap something out.
>
> But indeed, when the kernel needs memory for itself
> and no more memory is available, we'd crash. This is
> not something I've ever seen any system get close to,
> however...
Yep...
> > Okay, okay. Is there any solution (in 2.4.10) in doing what I want to
> > do?
>
> GPF_ATOMIC and giving kswapd a chance to run whenever the
> atomic allocations fail ?
But how do I know when to stop? I'd have to place timeout there
:-(. How do I know no more memory is available?
Pavel
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-26 14:25 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
2001-09-26 14:08 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-26 14:25 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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