Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 20:26:56 +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: <26296.973625216@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Nov 2000 11:23:23 PST." <200011071923.eA7JNN881648@earth.backplane.com>
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In message <200011071923.eA7JNN881648@earth.backplane.com>, Matt Dillon writes: >: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. >: >:-- >:Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 >:phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > > I don't think garbage collection is the answer, because there is always > the possibility that there may not be sufficient garbage to collect. We are not talking garbage collection, we are talking dumping the vfs namecache for instance. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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