Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Dec 2004 14:21:15 -0500 (EST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][1/2] adjust dirty threshold for lowmem-only mappings |
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On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Andrew Morton wrote: > Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> wrote: >> >> Simply running "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hd<one you can miss>" will >> result in OOM kills, with the dirty pagecache completely filling up >> lowmem. > > That surely used to work - I have a feeling that it got broken somehow. > The below might fix it, but probably not.
Even all 3 patches together don't seem to have fixed the bug completely. The time needed to trigger the bug has gone up though, from 5 minutes to a day ...
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