Re: 2.4.19-pre2-ac2 + preempt + lock-break

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 3 Mar 2002 13:46:23 +0000 (GMT)


> All OOM problems are fixed with vm_28 for me.

Excellent - thats one of the important ones.

> I've checked it with and without swap.
> With former versions some system tasks (smpppd), kdeinit and desktop processes
> (xperfmon++, kpanel, kmail, kalarm, etc.) were falsely killed.

As an aside, with the address space accounting code Im testing we can finally
do precise OOM handling.

> With 2.4.19-pre2-ac2 + pre and without swap (I disabled it before running the
> "test" prog) kswapd (?) goes into 20~25% system time usage and the whole
> system gets unusable. I had to reboot...

I've not really done much testing without swap I must admit

Alan
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