On Monday 06 August 2007 11:42, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > Currently your system likely would have died here, so ending up > > with a reserve page temporarily on the wrong node is already an > > improvement. > > The system would have died? Why?
Because a block device may have deadlocked here, leaving the system unable to clean dirty memory, or unable to load executables over the network for example. > The application in the cpuset that ran out of memory should have died > not the system. If your "application" is a virtual block device then you can land in deep doodoo. Regards, Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
