From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Cc: Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@f-secure.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: Looking for better VM
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 01:08:19 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.05.10011090106520.23541-100000@humbolt.nl.linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1001108172338.7153A-100000@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> BTW. Why does your OOM killer in 2.4 try to kill process that mmaped
> most memory? mmap is hamrless. mmap on files can't eat memory and
> swap.
Because the thing is too stupid to take that into
consideration? :)
Btw, if your mmap()ed file still takes 1GB of memory,
you have 1GB of freeable memory left and you shouldn't
be out of memory ... or should you??
regards,
Rik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-11-09 0:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.05.10011061954520.26327-100000@humbolt.nl.linux.org>
2000-11-08 11:34 ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2000-11-08 13:53 ` Rik van Riel
2000-11-08 16:36 ` Mikulas Patocka
2000-11-08 17:03 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-11-08 20:52 ` Ingo Oeser
2000-11-09 0:08 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2000-11-09 17:30 ` [PATCH] Reserve VM for root (was: Re: Looking for better VM) Szabolcs Szakacsits
2000-11-10 10:38 ` Andrey Savochkin
2000-11-13 23:44 ` user beancounter (was: Reserve VM for root) Szabolcs Szakacsits
2000-11-08 14:53 Looking for better VM Jesse Pollard
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