Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:28:37 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> 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: <20001107152836.I5112@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <25669.973620773@critter>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 07:12:53PM %2B0100 References: <200011071608.eA7G8Jb73998@earth.backplane.com> <25669.973620773@critter>
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* Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> [001107 11:12] wrote: > In message <200011071608.eA7G8Jb73998@earth.backplane.com>, 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. Wait a second, didn't you argue against doing this when I proposed it nearly a year ago? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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