Re: [Ksummit-2005-discuss] Summary of 2005 Kernel Summit Proposed Topics

[Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:

> This does not work, because any writable file system can be in theory
> an OOM deadlock and would need to be resource protected. Just someone needs 
> to mmap a file on it and dirty enough pages in it to full up system
> memory and make the system deadlock while trying to clean pages
> to get free memory.

You cannot fill up the mempools with dirty pages, which
makes sure we don't deadlock.

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