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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 18:42:31 +0200
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Subject: Re: the new VMt
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009251321360.14614-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 01:22:40PM -0300
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To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 01:22:40PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> whereas the old allocator could break down even when
> we still had enough swap free....

As far I can see that's a bug that you hided introducing a deadlock.

Andrea
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