From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 19:21:14 +0100 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Subject: Re: the new VMt Message-ID: <20000925192114.Q2615@redhat.com> References: <20000925184338.L2615@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 07:13:27PM +0100 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Alan Cox Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , mingo@elte.hu, Andrea Arcangeli , Marcelo Tosatti , Linus Torvalds , Rik van Riel , Roger Larsson , MM mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 07:13:27PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > there is no swap. If there is truly nothing kswapd can do to recover > > here, then we are truly OOM. Otherwise, kswapd should be able to free > > Indeed. But we wont fail the kmalloc with a NULL return Isn't that the preferred behaviour, though? If we are completely out of VM on a no-swap machine, we should be killing one of the existing processes rather than preventing any progress and keeping all of the old tasks alive but deadlocked. --Stephen -- 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/