Denis,

This patch was a feeble attempt at fixing a real VM problem by masking what was
really going on.

There are many "better" solution than this old patch

AA has a great VM patch
Rik has an rmap patch that looks promising

and my latest "simple" fix is attached for 2.4.17 but should apply to 2.4.18-pre

Thanks for looking at this old one though.

Martin

BTW: w/ this patch you no longer need to Tame the OOM killer