Re: [patch] my latest oom stuff

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Mon, 26 Oct 1998 02:13:56 +0100 (CET)


On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:

>Relegating kswapd to hardly more than idle status puts
>us back to where we were with Linux 1.1...

The efficient right/way is to free memory with the process that is
sleeping I think.

>Besides, does it make that much difference whether
>an RT task has to do MM work itself or if it is
>blocked by kswapd?

Yes:

1. if kswapd fails it will continue to run
2. if the process fails it will be killed soon
3. you free memory only when you really need memory

Andrea Arcangeli

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