Re: Can't make use of swap memory in 2.6.7-bk19

[William Lee Irwin III]

Peter Osterlund wrote:
>> I created a test program that allocates a 300MB buffer and writes to
>> all bytes sequentially. On my computer, which has 256MB RAM and 512MB
>> swap, the program gets OOM killed after dirtying about 140-180MB, and
>> the kernel reports:

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:14:16PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Someone hand me a paper bag... Peter, can you give this patch a try?

Heh, one goes in while I'm not looking, and look what happens.


-- wli
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