Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix for VM test9-pre7 | From | Christoph Rohland <> | Date | 04 Oct 2000 09:45:20 +0200 |
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Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> writes:
> On 2 Oct 2000, Christoph Rohland wrote: > > > the shm swapping still kills the machine(8GB mem) the machine > > with somthing like '__alloc_pages failed order 0'. > > > > When I do the same stresstest with mmaped file in ext2 the > > machine runs fine but the processes do not do anything and > > vmstat/ps lock up on these processes. > > This may be a highmem bounce-buffer creation deadlock. Do > your tests work if you use only 800 MB of RAM ? > > Shared memory swapping on my 64 MB test machine seems to > work fine (albeit a bit slow).
Yupp, with mem=850M it seems to work.
Greetings Christoph
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