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chrisl@vmware.com wrote: > > > on a 2.4 highmem machine can go into a spin, but it will come back > > to life after several minutes. > > No, it will not come back to life, at least not after several minutes. > And there is not sign it is going to come back to life. A 2.5G machine would, iirc, spin for 3-5 minutes. Umm, probably the time would increase somewhat exponentially with memory size so yes, you could be in for a very long wait. -ac kernels have an lru per zone and so would not be bitten by this failure. If indeed you are striking this problem, which is described at http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-mm/2002-08/msg00049.html - 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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