Re: [PATCH][2/2] do not OOM kill if we skip writing many pages

[Rik van Riel]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Rik van Riel wrote:

> > And did they apply Con's patch? (i.e. my 3/4 I posted few days ago)
>
> Con's patch is not relevant for this bug, since there are so few
> mapped pages (and those almost certainly live in highmem, which
> the VM is not scanning).

To quantify this, literally 99.8% of the inactive lowmem
pages are in writeback stage.  Yet the VM is OOM killing.

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