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From: "Al Boldi" <a1426z@gawab.com>
To: "'Nix'" <nix@esperi.org.uk>
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Subject: RE: Kswapd flaw
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:47:15 +0300
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On 28 Jun 2005, Al Boldi murmured woefully:
> Kswapd starts evicting processes to fullfil a malloc, when it should 
> just deny it because there is no swap.
Nix wrote:
> I can't even tell what you're expecting. Surely not that no pages are ever
evicted or flushed;
> your memory would fill up with page cache in no time.

Nix,
Please do flush anytime, and do it in sync during OOMs; but don't evict
procs especially not RUNNING procs, that is overkill.