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 NAA04580 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 13:41:14 -0500 Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 15:27:28 +0100 (CET) From: Rik van Riel Reply-To: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: useless report -- perhaps memory allocation problems in 2.1.12[678] In-Reply-To: <199811131746.LAA23512@mail.mankato.msus.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Jeffrey Hundstad Cc: Linux MM , Linus Torvalds List-ID: 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... +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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