From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Nov 7 12:48:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wgate.com (unknown [38.219.83.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B50837B479 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 12:48:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from jesup.eng.tvol.net ([10.32.2.26]) by mail.wgate.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id VT2YDX3A; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:48:23 -0500 Reply-To: Randell Jesup To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Cc: Matt Dillon , Poul-Henning Kamp , Bruce Evans , Kirk McKusick , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softdep panic due to blocked malloc (with traceback) References: <200011072021.eA7KLKa57382@aslan.scsiguy.com> From: Randell Jesup Date: 07 Nov 2000 15:52:35 -0500 In-Reply-To: "Justin T. Gibbs"'s message of "Tue, 07 Nov 2000 13:21:20 -0700" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Justin T. Gibbs" 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message