Re: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9

Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com)
16 Sep 2001 02:45:51 -0600


torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) writes:

> Don't look at how many pages of swap were used. That's a statistic,
> nothing more.

It is a statistic until you run out of them. Obviously that isn't
the problem here, or we'd hear complaints about the OOM killer. But
the number of pages used can make a difference.

Eric
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