From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Nov 7 13:41:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (fw2.aub.dk [195.24.1.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EB3337B479 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 13:41:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id eA7Lf2D27540; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 22:41:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Matt Dillon , Bruce Evans , Kirk McKusick , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softdep panic due to blocked malloc (with traceback) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Nov 2000 15:05:34 EST." Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 22:41:02 +0100 Message-ID: <27538.973633262@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , 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