Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 13:21:20 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, 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: <200011072021.eA7KLKa57382@aslan.scsiguy.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Nov 2000 11:53:59 PST." <200011071953.eA7Jrx081934@earth.backplane.com>
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> Poul. Paul and I have been working on low-memory deadlocks for the past > week. I've easily spent 50 hours working on it and Paul has probably > spent closer to 100 hours. You don't have to believe me if you don't want > to. > > -Matt That's not what Poul-Henning was attempting to convey. If you are near the edge, you need to make sure you don't fall off the edge. That is the jist of your changes. Poul-Henning's request was for a facility to possibly give you more space near the edge to work your way away from it. In otherwords, you might thrash less or recover more quickly from a low memory situation if you tell the rest of the kernel to free up data that can be recreated on demand. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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