On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Tobias Ringstrom wrote:
>
> I can confirm that in 2.4.11-pre4, the used-once pages are causing
> page-out activity, as opposed to 2.4.11-pre2 which did not.
Yeah, try_to_free_pages() gives up much too early: Marcelo removed the
loop from it. That also shows the problems with the out_of_memory() logic
much more easily.
Can you try just undoing the changes to try_to_free_pages() itself?
Linus
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