Re: 2.4.16 & OOM killer screw up (fwd)

[Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>]

On December 12, 2001 12:16 pm, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 04:27:23PM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > On December 11, 2001 03:23 pm, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > > As said I wrote some documentation on the VM for my last speech at the
> > > one of the most important italian linux events, it explains the basic
> > > design. It should be published on their webside as soon as I find the
> > > time to send them the slides. I can post a link once it will be online.
> > 
> > Why not also post the whole thing as an email, right here?
> 
> I uploaded it here:

ftp://ftp.suse.com//pub/people/andrea/talks/english/2001/pluto-dec-pub-0.tar.gz

This is really, really useful.

Helpful hint: to run the slideshow, get magicpoint (debian users: apt-get 
install mgp) and do:

   mv pluto.mpg pluto.mgp # ;)
   mgp pluto.mgp -x vflib

Helpful hint #2: Actually, just gv pluto.ps is gets all the content.

Helpful hint #3: Actually, less pluto.mgp will do the trick (after the 
rename) and lets you cut and paste the text, as I'm about to do...

Nit: "vm shrinking is not serialized with any other subsystem, it is also 
                                                              only---^^^^
threaded against itself."

The big thing I see missing from this presentation is a discussion of how 
icache, dcache etc fit into the picture, i.e., shrink_caches.

--
Daniel