Date: 07 Nov 2000 15:52:35 -0500 From: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com> Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, 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: <ybur94ntsh8.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net> In-Reply-To: "Justin T. Gibbs"'s message of "Tue, 07 Nov 2000 13:21:20 -0700" References: <200011072021.eA7KLKa57382@aslan.scsiguy.com>
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"Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com> writes:
>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.
I think both Matt's changes and what Poul-Henning can be useful.
(Actually, it sounds like Matt's are required, and Poul-Henning's might be
nice if and when someone does them).
IMHO
--
Randell Jesup, Worldgate Communications, ex-Scala, ex-Amiga OS team ('88-94)
rjesup@wgate.com
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