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Date:      Tue, 07 Nov 2000 19:12:53 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: softdep panic due to blocked malloc (with traceback) 
Message-ID:  <25669.973620773@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Nov 2000 08:08:19 PST." <200011071608.eA7G8Jb73998@earth.backplane.com> 

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In message <200011071608.eA7G8Jb73998@earth.backplane.com>, Matt Dillon writes:

>    I have a complete solution to the low-memory deadlock problem under
>    test with Paul Saab, and DG has approved of the idea.  As soon as both
>    Paul and My machines survive a night of extreme memory strain I'll
>    make the patches available generally.

Could we please have an eventhandler chain which gets called when
we are short of KVM ?  There are code which can free KVM with no
significant loss of anything but performance, if only we bother to
tell it to do so.

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