Re: [patch] my latest oom stuff

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl)
Mon, 26 Oct 1998 09:00:16 +0100 (CET)


On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> >>Could you try the above simple approach?
> >Sure.
> Seems to works fine here.

> + * Do the pageout for at most one jiffy.
> */
> + start =jiffies;
> do {
> do_try_to_free_page(0);

> + if (free_memory_available() == 2 && buffer_under_max()
> + && pgcache_under_max())
> break;
> + } while (jiffies == start);

> Note also the fix to kswapd that now stop only if the buffer and page
> cache are under max.

I like this patch; I see now where Linus and you are
going. I guess I was just to frustrated with my switching
my keyboard to dvorak last night to properly think :)

Rik -- typing slowly because my kbd is dvorak since sun 19:40...
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