Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 20:49:45 +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: <26624.973626585@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Nov 2000 11:41:35 PST." <200011071941.eA7JfZX81819@earth.backplane.com>
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In message <200011071941.eA7JfZX81819@earth.backplane.com>, Matt Dillon writes: >:We are not talking garbage collection, we are talking dumping the >:vfs namecache for instance. >: >:-- >:Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > > Yes, but think a minute: How does that prevent a low memory deadlock? > The answer is not "because it frees up some pages" ... what if you've > already freed up all the namecache pages you can and some process > continues to eat memory, and now you have none left to free? Matt, I'll just rest the case here. I can see from the swiftness of your replies that you are in "everything phk says is wrong by definition" mode right now. Think about it and we can discuss it in a couple of weeks time maybe. -- 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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