Re: continuing VM madness

2000-11-08 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 05:42:33PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > add page aging then in theory it'll be as good as 2.2 but in practice who Agreed. Andrea - 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 htt

Re: continuing VM madness

2000-11-08 Thread Mikulas Patocka
> > Sadly it is not a bug but a VM misdesign (and people are just making > > different workarounds that more or less work). I believe that this > > solution will break again, as it happened in 2.2.15 and 2.2.16. > > 2.2.15->16 was the major transition in getting stuff right. 2.2.18 should be > pr

Re: continuing VM madness

2000-11-08 Thread Alan Cox
> Sadly it is not a bug but a VM misdesign (and people are just making > different workarounds that more or less work). I believe that this > solution will break again, as it happened in 2.2.15 and 2.2.16. 2.2.15->16 was the major transition in getting stuff right. 2.2.18 should be pretty reasona

Re: continuing VM madness

2000-11-08 Thread Mikulas Patocka
> > Should kswapd and klogd ever get "do_try_to_free_pages failed"? when > > this happens my machine is destabilized, and pauses briefly from time to > > time before locking up or otherwise becoming inert. This is 2.2.16+USB. > > > > Nov 7 14:51:36 cartman kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed

Re: continuing VM madness

2000-11-07 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Tue, 07 Nov 2000 21:50:32 Michael Rothwell wrote: > Should kswapd and klogd ever get "do_try_to_free_pages failed"? when > this happens my machine is destabilized, and pauses briefly from time to > time before locking up or otherwise becoming inert. This is 2.2.16+USB. > > Nov 7 14:51:36 car