Re: 2.4.16 & OOM killer screw up (fwd)

[Marcelo Tosatti]

Andrea, 

Could you please start looking at any 2.4 VM issues which show up ?

Just please make sure that when sending a fix for something, send me _one_
problem and a patch which fixes _that_ problem.

I'm tempted to look at VM, but I think I'll spend my limited time in a
better way if I review's others people work instead.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 16:46:02 -0200 (BRST)
From: Marcelo Tosatti <[e-mail]>
To: Abraham vd Merwe <[e-mail]>
Cc: Linux Kernel Development <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: 2.4.16 & OOM killer screw up

On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Abraham vd Merwe wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> If I leave my machine on for a day or two without doing anything on it (e.g.
> my machine at work over a weekend) and I come back then 1) all my memory is
> used for buffers/caches and when I try running application, the OOM killer
> kicks in, tries to allocate swap space (which I don't have) and kills
> whatever I try start (that's with 300M+ memory in buffers/caches).

Abraham, 

I'll take a look at this issue as soon as pre8 is released.