Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Sat Mar 24 2001 - 17:11:28 EST

On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Jonathan Morton wrote:

> free = atomic_read(&buffermem_pages);
> free += atomic_read(&page_cache_size);
> free += nr_free_pages();
> - free += nr_swap_pages;

> + /* Since getting swap info is expensive, see if our allocation can happen in physical RAM */

Actually, getting swap info is as cheap as reading the variable
nr_swap_pages. I should fix this in the OOM killer ;)

regards,

Rik 

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