From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix for VM test9-pre7 References: From: Christoph Rohland Date: 04 Oct 2000 09:45:20 +0200 In-Reply-To: Rik van Riel's message of "Mon, 2 Oct 2000 14:17:55 -0300 (BRST)" Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Rik van Riel writes: > 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). Yupp, with mem=850M it seems to work. Greetings Christoph -- -- 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/