From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 12:45:38 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix for VM test9-pre7 In-Reply-To: <39D844E0.A8B4203E@norran.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Roger Larsson Cc: "linux-mm@kvack.org" List-ID: 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 -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000 http://www.conectiva.com/ http://www.surriel.com/ -- 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/