Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

[Rik van Riel]

On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Jonathan Morton wrote:

>         free = atomic_read(&buffermem_pages);
>         free += atomic_read(&page_cache_size);
>         free += nr_free_pages();
> -       free += nr_swap_pages;

> +       /* Since getting swap info is expensive, see if our allocation can happen in 
>physical RAM */

Actually, getting swap info is as cheap as reading the variable
nr_swap_pages. I should fix this in the OOM killer ;)

regards,

Rik
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