On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > GFP_KERNEL has to be able to fail for 2.4. Otherwise you can get > everything jammed in kernel space waiting on GFP_KERNEL and if the > swapper cannot make space you die. if one can get everything jammed waiting for GFP_KERNEL, and not being able to deallocate anything, thats a VM or resource-limit bug. This situation is just 1% RAM away from the 'root cannot log in', situation. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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