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Date:      Thu, 20 May 2004 00:02:03 +0200
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Craig Boston <craig@xfoil.gank.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Swapping over ggate?
Message-ID:  <20040519220203.GC845@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
In-Reply-To: <200405191649.01185.craig@xfoil.gank.org>
References:  <200405191112.10072.craig@xfoil.gank.org> <20040519210452.GB845@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <200405191649.01185.craig@xfoil.gank.org>

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On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 04:49:00PM -0500, Craig Boston wrote:
+> 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?

I'm not sure if you don't find some more, game you are playing is quite
risky, but maybe it is worth to try.

-- 
Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.FreeBSD.org
pjd@FreeBSD.org                           http://garage.freebsd.pl
FreeBSD committer                         Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!

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