Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Nov 1998 23:31:40 -0800 | From | Phil Blecker <> | Subject | Re: Hangup, cure(?), in 2.1.127 |
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On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 12:53:15PM -0500, Chip Salzenberg wrote: > According to Linus Torvalds: > > /* max one hundreth of a second */ > > end_time = jiffies + (HZ-1)/100; > > do { > > if (!do_try_to_free_page(0)) > > break; > > + if (nr_free_pages > 2*freepages.high) > > + break; > > } while (time_before_eq(jiffies,end_time)); > > When I first installed 2.1.127 on my laptop I got a few hangups. > Things weren't completely dead, but they were very weird; it seemed as > if anything that required disk activity hung for a _long_ time, but > sometimes succeeded after all. > > Applying the above patch _seems_ to have fixed this problem, but I
I just had the same thing happen on a Compaq Pressario 4814, P233, 64M, XFree86 XVGA, arcnet. Reboot took about an hour.
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