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Date:      Tue, 07 Nov 2000 22:41:02 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
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:  <27538.973633262@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Nov 2000 15:05:34 EST." <p04330101b62e10aaadd0@[128.113.24.47]> 

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In message <p04330101b62e10aaadd0@[128.113.24.47]>, 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.

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