Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Oct 2002 13:46:19 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: writepage return value check in vmscan.c |
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chrisl@vmware.com wrote: > > ... > See the comment at the source for parameter. basically, if you want > 3 virtual machine, each have 2 process, using 1 G ram each you can do: > > bigmm -i 3 -t 2 -c 1024 > > I run it on two 4G and 8G smp machine. Both can dead lock if I mmap > enough memory. >
Are you sure it's a deadlock? A large MAP_SHARED load like this on a 2.4 highmem machine can go into a spin, but it will come back to life after several minutes. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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