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Avoiding swap IO with mem_notify

Avoiding swap IO with mem_notify

Posted Feb 3, 2008 4:14 UTC (Sun) by njs (guest, #40338)
In reply to: Avoiding swap IO with mem_notify by riel
Parent article: Avoiding the OOM killer with mem_notify

Oh!  This makes *much* more sense.  (Especially the otherwise unintelligible part of the
original article that talks about pages getting swapped out, which has nothing to do with
OOM.)

In fairness, though, the LKML patch announcement just talks about it being good to avoid the
OOM.


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