Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 22:41:02 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, 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: <27538.973633262@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Nov 2000 15:05:34 EST." <p04330101b62e10aaadd0@[128.113.24.47]>
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In message <p04330101b62e10aaadd0@[128.113.24.47]>, Garance A Drosihn writes: >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) That too might be a very good idea. -- 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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