Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Jul 1998 17:26:27 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: a patch that might help on small-memory machines (was Re: 2.1 MM [was: Re: 2.2 will never come..]) |
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On 14 Jul 1998, Kevin Buhr wrote:
>Second, the "pagecache" and "buffermem" settings I use make the cp-bug >quite a bit worse in some situtations, since they reduce the fast
No, the cp-bug crash (not more usable) with the default settings of the two sysctl with your patch applyed. If I use the two sysctl as you suggested I am able to kill `cp' pressing C^c.
BTW, I never seen fork out of memory with the stock kernel (but I shutdown my machine once a day at least...).
Andrea[s] Arcangeli
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