From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: safemode <safemode@speakeasy.net>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: time tells all about kernel VM's
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 09:33:41 -0200 (BRST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0110230933000.3690-100000@imladris.surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011023030353Z279218-17408+3723@vger.kernel.org>
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, safemode wrote:
> A. OOM did not kick in and kill kghostview. Why you may ask? Read on to B.
> B. .... So what
> happens is that the kernel cant swap because the hdd io is being strangled by
> the process that's going out of control (kghostview) which means that the VM
> is stuck doing this redistribution at a snails pace and the OOM situation
> never occurs
> I see this as a pretty serious bug
Fully agreed. Fixes are welcome.
Rik
--
DMCA, SSSCA, W3C? Who cares? http://thefreeworld.net/ (volunteers needed)
http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-23 11:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-23 3:04 time tells all about kernel VM's safemode
2001-10-23 5:02 ` safemode
2001-10-23 7:40 ` Helge Hafting
2001-10-23 19:30 ` bill davidsen
2001-10-23 23:22 ` safemode
2001-10-23 23:30 ` safemode
2001-10-24 9:07 ` Helge Hafting
2001-10-23 11:33 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2001-10-23 23:42 ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-24 2:08 ` safemode
2001-10-24 11:55 ` safemode
2001-10-24 18:05 ` Luigi Genoni
2001-10-24 18:36 ` safemode
2001-10-24 19:57 ` Mike Fedyk
[not found] <200110241836.f9OIaa9l002350@Expansa.sns.it>
2001-10-24 22:01 ` Luigi Genoni
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=Pine.LNX.4.33L.0110230933000.3690-100000@imladris.surriel.com \
--to=riel@conectiva.com.br \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=safemode@speakeasy.net \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).