From: Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl>
To: Jeffrey Hundstad <jeffrey.hundstad@mankato.msus.edu>
Cc: Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: useless report -- perhaps memory allocation problems in 2.1.12[678]
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 15:27:28 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981116152322.20349E-100000@mirkwood.dummy.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199811131746.LAA23512@mail.mankato.msus.edu>
On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Jeffrey Hundstad wrote:
> When I was recompiling gimp, with tkRat, and Netscape running it felt
> like the machine was running out of ram. (I've got 128m of ram 128m of
> happens on 2.1.125. Something has changed for the worse, but it does
> FEEL peppier at the keyboard ;-)
In 2.1.127+ the freeing of memory is done in the context of
programs themselves too and the whole system is busy freeing
memory. This means that the kswapd-loop has now been migrated
into other contexts as well. This, together with the fact that
kswapd never blocks on disk access any more, has caused serious
trouble when a system runs out of memory.
I guess this means I'll have to update and clean my out
of memory killer patch really soon now... :(
cheers,
Rik -- slowly getting used to dvorak kbd layout...
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1998-11-16 14:27 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
1998-11-17 11:21 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-11-17 20:18 ` Rik van Riel
1998-11-17 23:14 ` Linus Torvalds
1998-11-18 1:09 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-11-18 1:21 ` Linus Torvalds
1998-11-18 1:41 ` Linus Torvalds
1998-11-18 8:58 ` Rik van Riel
1998-11-18 9:19 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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