From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3ABB6833.183E9188@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:13:55 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: General 2.4 impressions (was Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init) References: <20010323015358Z129164-406+3041@vger.kernel.org> <20010323122815.A6428@win.tue.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Personally I think the OOM killer itself is fine. I think there are problems elsewhere which are triggering the OOM killer when it should not be triggered, ie. a leak like Doug Ledford was reporting. I definitely see heavier page/dcache usage in 2.4 -- but that is to be expected due to 2.4 changes! So it is incredibily difficult to quantify if something is wrong, and if so, where... My own impressions of 2.4 are that it "feels faster" for my own uses and it's stable. The downsides I find are that heavy fs activity seems to imply increased swapping, which jibes with a guess that the page/dcache is exceptionally greedy with releasing pages under memory pressure. -- Jeff Garzik | May you have warm words on a cold evening, Building 1024 | a full moon on a dark night, MandrakeSoft | and a smooth road all the way to your door. -- 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/