From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Tesarik Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] vmscan: bail out of page reclaim after swap_cluster_max pages Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:59:30 +0100 References: <20081113171208.6985638e@bree.surriel.com> <20081119165443.GB26749@csn.ul.ie> In-Reply-To: <20081119165443.GB26749@csn.ul.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811211259.30760.ptesarik@suse.cz> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Mel Gorman Cc: Rik van Riel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Dne Wednesday 19 of November 2008 17:54:44 Mel Gorman napsal(a): >[...] > I was going to ask if it was easier to go OOM now, but even under very high > stress, we should be making forward progress. It's just in smaller steps so > I can't see it causing a problem. Actually, I had to apply a very similar patch the other day to reduce the time the system was unresponsive because of the OOM-killer, so I tested OOM situations quite a lot, and it did not cause any problem. Petr Tesarik -- 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-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org