From: arjan@fenrus.demon.nl
To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux-2.4.5
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 10:18:07 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m153aD1-000OizC@amadeus.home.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105252107010.1520-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
In article <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105252107010.1520-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> you wrote:
> If there are more situations like this, please get a stack trace on the
> deadlock (fairly easy these days with ctrl-scrolllock), and let's think
> about what make for the nasty pattern in the first place instead of trying
> to add more "reserved" pages.
What I've been seeing so far is that, say, 16 processes all need memory, and
start to write out stuff. All only half succeed, eg they allocate memory for
the writeout but don't actually get enough and sleep for more.
Now that isn't too much of a problem UNTIL kswapd is one of those.....
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-26 9:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-25 20:00 [with-PATCH-really] highmem deadlock removal, balancing & cleanup Rik van Riel
2001-05-25 21:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-25 22:20 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-25 23:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-25 23:13 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-25 23:19 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-26 0:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-26 0:07 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-26 0:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-26 0:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-26 0:26 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-26 0:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-26 0:29 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-05-26 0:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-26 0:38 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-26 1:28 ` Linux-2.4.5 Linus Torvalds
2001-05-26 1:35 ` Linux-2.4.5 Rik van Riel
2001-05-26 1:39 ` Linux-2.4.5 Ben LaHaise
2001-05-26 1:59 ` Linux-2.4.5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26 2:11 ` Linux-2.4.5 Ben LaHaise
2001-05-26 2:38 ` Linux-2.4.5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26 2:49 ` Linux-2.4.5 Ben LaHaise
2001-05-26 3:11 ` Linux-2.4.5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26 4:22 ` Linux-2.4.5 Linus Torvalds
2001-05-26 4:31 ` Linux-2.4.5 Rik van Riel
2001-05-26 8:10 ` Linux-2.4.5 Linus Torvalds
2001-05-26 9:01 ` Linux-2.4.5 Linus Torvalds
2001-05-26 9:18 ` arjan [this message]
2001-05-26 14:18 ` Linux-2.4.5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26 14:21 ` Linux-2.4.5 Rik van Riel
2001-05-26 14:38 ` Linux-2.4.5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26 14:40 ` Linux-2.4.5 Rik van Riel
2001-05-26 15:17 ` Linux-2.4.5 Linus Torvalds
2001-05-26 15:28 ` Linux-2.4.5 Rik van Riel
2001-05-26 15:59 ` Linux-2.4.5 Linus Torvalds
2001-05-26 22:12 ` Linux-2.4.5 Marcelo Tosatti
2001-05-27 6:53 ` Linux-2.4.5 Marcelo Tosatti
2001-06-03 23:32 ` Linux-2.4.5 Linus Torvalds
2001-06-05 2:21 ` Linux-2.4.5 Marcelo Tosatti
2001-05-26 15:09 ` Linux-2.4.5 Linus Torvalds
2001-05-26 15:18 ` Linux-2.4.5 Rik van Riel
2001-05-26 15:24 ` Linux-2.4.5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26 15:26 ` Linux-2.4.5 Rik van Riel
2001-05-26 15:40 ` Linux-2.4.5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26 4:45 ` Linux-2.4.5 Rik van Riel
2001-05-26 4:47 ` Linux-2.4.5 Rik van Riel
2001-05-26 6:07 ` Linux-2.4.5 Ben LaHaise
2001-05-26 14:32 ` Linux-2.4.5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26 14:36 ` Linux-2.4.5 Rik van Riel
2001-05-26 15:03 ` Linux-2.4.5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26 15:08 ` Linux-2.4.5 Rik van Riel
2001-05-26 15:20 ` Linux-2.4.5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26 15:41 ` Linux-2.4.5 Rik van Riel
2001-05-26 0:42 ` [with-PATCH-really] highmem deadlock removal, balancing & cleanup Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26 0:52 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-05-26 1:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26 1:38 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-05-26 1:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26 2:01 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-05-26 2:26 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26 2:40 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-05-26 1:43 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-25 22:35 ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-25 23:07 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] <20010526171459.Y9634@athlon.random>
2001-05-26 15:22 ` Linux-2.4.5 Rik van Riel
2001-05-26 15:30 ` Linux-2.4.5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26 15:51 ` Linux-2.4.5 Rik van Riel
2001-05-26 16:04 ` Linux-2.4.5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26 15:23 ` Linux-2.4.5 Linus Torvalds
2001-05-26 15:31 ` Linux-2.4.5 Rik van Riel
2001-05-26 15:38 ` Linux-2.4.5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26 16:03 ` Linux-2.4.5 Linus Torvalds
2001-05-26 18:11 ` Linux-2.4.5 Ben LaHaise
2001-05-26 18:31 ` Linux-2.4.5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26 19:42 ` Linux-2.4.5 Ingo Molnar
2001-05-26 19:56 ` Linux-2.4.5 Andrea Arcangeli
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