Re: the new VMt

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 04:42:49PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Progress is made, clean pages are discarded and dirty ones queued for

How can you make progress if there isn't swap avaiable and all the
freeable page/buffer cache is just been freed? The deadlock happens
in OOM condition (not when we can make progress).

Andrea
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