From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from max.phys.uu.nl (max.phys.uu.nl [131.211.32.73]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA15022 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 17:18:30 -0400 Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 21:55:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Rik van Riel Reply-To: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: everyone who has VM problems/messages (writable swappage or crash or lockup) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: MOLNAR Ingo Cc: Linux MM List-ID: On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, MOLNAR Ingo wrote: > [actually i saw problems because we still do not handle the 'out of swap' > case very gracefully, but thats another issue. Also, the ramdisk test does > not (yet) fully simulate a real disk.] Part of the code to handle that is on my homepage, but as I haven't worked out how to decide when to start this code I haven't made a patch yet... If you are interested, could you please look into it? (my time is now completely consumed by reviewing the zone allocator's design, a week camp with our Scouts group and finetuning the VM system for 2.2) If anyone else is reading this, could you please think about how this task is accomplished and work something out together? (I'll be away from sunday 12th until saterday the 19th) Rik. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Linux memory management tour guide. H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl | | Scouting Vries cubscout leader. http://www.phys.uu.nl/~riel/ | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org