Re: pre4 oom too soon

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>
> I'm not sure exactly what to blame in out_of_memory(), but it does
> look wrong to depend so much on whether nr_swap_pages happens to be 0
> at that instant or not, and a lot of that full swap is duplicated in
> the swap cache.  Probably that should be taken into consideration?

That sounds sane. If we have swap cache pages, we're not out of memory
yet.

		Linus