Re: [patch] my latest oom stuff

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Sun, 25 Oct 1998 13:39:11 +0100 (CET)


On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>However, your patches won't be applied unless they work well under the
>"not out of memory yet, but we're under some bad pressure" case.

Agreed.

>Also, at least one of your earlier patches caused my processes to die of
>SIGBUS errors even though I actually had memory left. That's not
>acceptable either.

OK. The last patch I sent to you against 127 should be very more agressive
(of a factor of 2) but since it uses the same logic I don' t expect it
will fix the sigbus problem on your machine.

Andrea Arcangeli

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