Re: VM in 2.4.7-pre hurts...

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sat Jul 07 2001 - 16:43:06 EST


> > Its certainly misleading. I got Jeff to try making oom return
> > 4999 out of 5000 times regardless.
>
> In that case, he _is_ OOM. ;)

Hardly

> 1) (almost) no free memory
> 2) no free swap
> 3) very little pagecache + buffer cache

Large amounts of cache, which went away when the OOM code was neutered

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