Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Jan 2002 18:50:10 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable |
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On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Ken Brownfield wrote:
> A) VM has major issues > 1) about a dozen recent OOPS reports in VM code > 2) VM falls down on large-memory machines with a > high inode count (slocate/updatedb, i/dcache) > 3) Memory allocation failures and OOM triggers > even though caches remain full. > 4) Other bugs fixed in -aa and others > B) Live- and dead-locks that I'm seeing on all 2.4 production > machines > 2.4.9, possibly related to A. But how will I > ever find out?
I've spent ages trying to fix these bugs in the -ac kernel, but they got all backed out in search of better performance.
Right now I'm developing a VM again, but I have no interest at all in fixing the livelocks in the main kernel, they'll just get removed again after a while.
If you want to test my VM stuff, you can get patches from http://surriel.com/patches/ or direct access at the bitkeeper tree on http://linuxvm.bkbits.net/
cheers,
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