Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 25 Sep 2000 17:16:06 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: the new VM |
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On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> GFP_KERNEL has to be able to fail for 2.4. Otherwise you can get > everything jammed in kernel space waiting on GFP_KERNEL and if the > swapper cannot make space you die.
if one can get everything jammed waiting for GFP_KERNEL, and not being able to deallocate anything, thats a VM or resource-limit bug. This situation is just 1% RAM away from the 'root cannot log in', situation.
Ingo
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