From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 19 14:50:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44D7B16A4CE; Wed, 19 May 2004 14:50:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ion.gank.org (ion.gank.org [69.55.238.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FCA143D41; Wed, 19 May 2004 14:50:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from craig@xfoil.gank.org) Received: from owen1492.uf.corelab.com (pix.corelab.com [12.45.169.2]) by ion.gank.org (mail) with ESMTP id C25632B4D5; Wed, 19 May 2004 16:49:06 -0500 (CDT) From: Craig Boston To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 16:49:00 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <200405191112.10072.craig@xfoil.gank.org> <20040519210452.GB845@darkness.comp.waw.pl> In-Reply-To: <20040519210452.GB845@darkness.comp.waw.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200405191649.01185.craig@xfoil.gank.org> cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swapping over ggate? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 21:50:25 -0000 On Wednesday 19 May 2004 04:04 pm, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > The biggest problem in your situation is that ggatel(8) works as a > userland process and I think there is a 100% deadlock when system is > trying to swap ggatel process out. Ah, makes perfect sense. So much for being clever :) If I hacked up my local ggatel source to make it lock all of its pages, do you think it would be sufficient to prevent that particular deadlock? Thanks, Craig