linux-kernel - Re: oom kill oddness.

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Date:	Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:39:42 +1000
From:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
To:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: oom kill oddness.

Roman Zippel wrote:

>Hi,
>
>On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>
>>Kernel versions please, guys.  There have been a lot of oom-killer changes
>>post-2.6.18.
>>
>
>Last I tested this was with 2.6.18.
>The latest changes to vmscan.c should help...
>

It would be good if you could confirm that. I basically got the kernel to
the point where it used up all swap before going OOM on the workload I
was looking at (MySQL running in virtual machines).

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