From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from flinx.npwt.net (eric@flinx.npwt.net [208.236.161.237]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA20285 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:31:10 -0400 Subject: Re: New Linux-MM homepage References: From: ebiederm+eric@npwt.net (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 19 Jun 1998 14:29:51 -0500 In-Reply-To: Rik van Riel's message of Fri, 19 Jun 1998 19:06:08 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Rik van Riel Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Linux MM List-ID: >>>>> "RR" == Rik van Riel writes: RR> On 19 Jun 1998, Eric W. Biederman wrote: RR> Well, there are several cases where we 'forget' about RR> shared area's. One of them is where SysV shared memory RR> is unmapped from all processes but the handle remains. RR> Since we do page scanning by process, we can't find RR> such an area. I don't know if this has been fixed by RR> now, but I certainly remember the messages about it... I hadn't quite categorized it that way. But I both discovered the problem and have posted a fix to linux-mm that should work. So for that case of swapoff we are fine. Or should be soon :) Now if there are any other cases I don't know about. I was afraid you were talking about a memory leak... Eric