From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 14:17:55 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix for VM test9-pre7 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: linux-kernel@vger.redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, Linus Torvalds List-ID: On 2 Oct 2000, Christoph Rohland wrote: > the shm swapping still kills the machine(8GB mem) the machine > with somthing like '__alloc_pages failed order 0'. > > When I do the same stresstest with mmaped file in ext2 the > machine runs fine but the processes do not do anything and > vmstat/ps lock up on these processes. This may be a highmem bounce-buffer creation deadlock. Do your tests work if you use only 800 MB of RAM ? Shared memory swapping on my 64 MB test machine seems to work fine (albeit a bit slow). 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/