Re: VM Problems in 2.6.7 (Too active OOM Killer)

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Wed Jul 14 2004 - 20:33:20 EST


On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 17:43, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it. There are enough physical
>> placement issues already even without pinned userspace pages.

On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 06:04:45PM -0700, Peter Zaitsev wrote:
> You and Andrey are mentioning "pinned" pages. Does this corresponds to
> locked (ie memlock()) pages ?
> In my case I did not have any locked pages at all.

All anonymous userspace pages are now pinned when there is no swap.


-- wli
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