From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 12:50:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] Recent VM fiasco - fixed In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Rohland Cc: Daniel Stone , riel@nl.linux.org, Zlatko Calusic , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu List-ID: On 9 May 2000, Christoph Rohland wrote: > Linus Torvalds writes: > > > Try out the really recent one - pre7-8. So far it hassome good reviews, > > and I've tested it both on a 20MB machine and a 512MB one.. > > Nope, does more or less lockup after the first attempt to swap > something out. I can still run ls and free. but as soon as something > touches /proc it locks up. Also my test programs do not do anything > any more. This may be due to an unrelated bug with the task_lock() fixing (see separate patch from Manfred for that one). > I append the mem and task info from sysrq. Mem info seems to not > change after lockup. I suspect that if you do right-alt + scrolllock, you'll see it looping on a spinlock. Which is why the memory info isn't changing ;) But I'll double-check the shm code (I didn't test anything that did any shared memory, for example). Linus -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/