--- mm/oom_kill.c.orig	Thu Mar  1 18:57:11 2001
+++ mm/oom_kill.c	Thu Mar  1 18:58:23 2001
@@ -188,13 +188,17 @@
  *
  * Returns 0 if there is still enough memory left,
  * 1 when we are out of memory (otherwise).
+ *
+ * Note that since __alloc_pages() never lets user
+ * allocations go below freepages.min, we have to
+ * use a slightly higher threshold here...
  */
 int out_of_memory(void)
 {
 	long cache_mem, limit;

 	/* Enough free memory?  Not OOM. */
-	if (nr_free_pages() > freepages.min)
+	if (nr_free_pages() > freepages.min + 4)
 		return 0;

 	if (nr_free_pages() + nr_inactive_clean_pages() > freepages.low)