subject:"\[PATCH\] oom\-killer trigger"

Re: [PATCH] oom-killer trigger

2001-03-01 Thread David Mansfield

> > 1. the OOM killer never triggers if we have > freepages.min >of free memory > 2. __alloc_pages() never allocates pages to < freepages.min >for user allocations > > ==> the OOM killer never gets triggered under some workloads; > the system just sits around with nr_free_pages == fr

[PATCH] oom-killer trigger

2001-03-01 Thread Rik van Riel

Hi, the OOM killer in Linux 2.4 has a rather embarrasing bug. 1. the OOM killer never triggers if we have > freepages.min of free memory 2. __alloc_pages() never allocates pages to < freepages.min for user allocations ==> the OOM killer never gets triggered under some workloads; the s