Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Sep 2000 11:54:12 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.0-t9p7 and mmap002 - freeze |
| |
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> Another thing I'm curious about is increasing memory pressure in > the event of an allocation failure (retry). Why do we do that?
We were short on free memory, so kswapd should work /harder/ to keep up with the current load.
> P.S. in buffer.c, we do a LockPage(), but no UnlockPage() in > the case of no_buffer_head.. is that correct?
No it isn't ;) Thanks for pointing out this one...
regards,
Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
http://www.conectiva.com/ http://www.surriel.com/
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |