Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: kernel hangs in 118th call to vmalloc | Date | Fri, 31 Aug 2001 21:54:58 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > is able to get itself to the point it killed off all user space. > > So you're saying it's a bug that I can't work around?
Its a design property vmalloc never had. It isnt meant to be abused that way
> I heard that 2.4.9 doesn't even run "thrash". Is this true? If so, why > are these buggy VM's being released in the first place?
Lack of crystal balls.
The VM seemed ok until after 2.4.0 at which point it became clear it had some rather large corner cases where it was not. Fixing them is an iterative process and getting all cases right is hard. I'm very happy with the 2.4.9-ac tree VM. It needs the inode cache handling resolved better but it works - 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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