From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Nov 7 15:30:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0873637B479 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:30:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id eA7NSbU13782; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:28:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:28:37 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Matt Dillon , Bruce Evans , Kirk McKusick , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softdep panic due to blocked malloc (with traceback) Message-ID: <20001107152836.I5112@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <200011071608.eA7G8Jb73998@earth.backplane.com> <25669.973620773@critter> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <25669.973620773@critter>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 07:12:53PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Poul-Henning Kamp [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