From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Nov 7 12: 8:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F66937B4C5 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 12:08:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA125600; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:05:36 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <25669.973620773@critter> References: <25669.973620773@critter> Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:05:34 -0500 To: Poul-Henning Kamp , Matt Dillon From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: softdep panic due to blocked malloc (with traceback) Cc: Bruce Evans , Kirk McKusick , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 7:12 PM +0100 11/7/00, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >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. Do you mean something like the SIGDANGER signal, which is available under aix? (I'm just wondering) -- --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message