From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Roger Larsson <roger.larsson@norran.net>
Cc: "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix for VM test9-pre7
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 12:45:38 -0300 (BRST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010021244350.22539-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39D844E0.A8B4203E@norran.net>
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Roger Larsson wrote:
> > The attached patch seems to fix all the reported deadlock
> > problems with the new VM. Basically they could be grouped
> > into 2 categories:
> >
> > 1) __GFP_IO related locking issues
> > 2) something sleeps on a free/clean/inactive page goal
> > that isn't worked towards
>
> Trying mmapp002 it gets killed due to no free
> memory left...
????
I don't believe you. If the system runs out of memory the
current code should loop around and hang the system in a
nasty kind of livelock...
What error messages did you get?
> This was on a 96MB RAM, 180MHz PPro, IDE disks
>
> Riel, have you tested to run with little memory or
> limit your memory size? Or rather what system do
> you test in.
I'm testing on a 64MB test machine, but haven't tested
this one with mem=8m yet..
regards,
Rik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-10-02 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-02 3:42 Rik van Riel
2000-10-02 8:18 ` Roger Larsson
2000-10-02 10:00 ` Ignore my: " Roger Larsson
2000-10-02 15:48 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-02 15:45 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2000-10-02 12:05 ` ehrhardt
2000-10-02 15:49 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-02 12:27 ` Tom Leete
2000-10-02 15:51 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-02 21:20 ` Tom Leete
2000-10-02 16:46 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-10-02 17:17 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-04 7:45 ` Christoph Rohland
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