Messages in this thread | | | From | Petr Tesarik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -mm] vmscan: bail out of page reclaim after swap_cluster_max pages | Date | Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:59:30 +0100 |
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Dne Wednesday 19 of November 2008 17:54:44 Mel Gorman napsal(a): >[...] > I was going to ask if it was easier to go OOM now, but even under very high > stress, we should be making forward progress. It's just in smaller steps so > I can't see it causing a problem.
Actually, I had to apply a very similar patch the other day to reduce the time the system was unresponsive because of the OOM-killer, so I tested OOM situations quite a lot, and it did not cause any problem.
Petr Tesarik
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