From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 18:05:00 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: the new VMt Message-ID: <20000925180500.B26719@athlon.random> References: <20000925164249.G2615@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20000925164249.G2615@redhat.com>; from sct@redhat.com on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 04:42:49PM +0100 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Cc: Alan Cox , mingo@elte.hu, Marcelo Tosatti , Linus Torvalds , Rik van Riel , Roger Larsson , MM mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 04:42:49PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Progress is made, clean pages are discarded and dirty ones queued for How can you make progress if there isn't swap avaiable and all the freeable page/buffer cache is just been freed? The deadlock happens in OOM condition (not when we can make progress). Andrea -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/