Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 16:40:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 16:40:14 -0400 Received: from packet.digeo.com ([12.110.80.53]:49042 "EHLO packet.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 16:40:13 -0400 Message-ID: <3DB85C1B.62D14184@digeo.com> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 13:46:19 -0700 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.19-pre4 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chrisl@vmware.com CC: Andrea Arcangeli , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chrisl@gnuchina.org, Alan Cox Subject: Re: writepage return value check in vmscan.c References: <20021024082505.GB1471@vmware.com> <3DB7B11B.9E552CFF@digeo.com> <20021024175718.GA1398@vmware.com> <20021024183327.GS3354@dualathlon.random> <20021024191531.GD1398@vmware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Oct 2002 20:46:19.0247 (UTC) FILETIME=[67920FF0:01C27B9E] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 707 Lines: 20 chrisl@vmware.com wrote: > > ... > See the comment at the source for parameter. basically, if you want > 3 virtual machine, each have 2 process, using 1 G ram each you can do: > > bigmm -i 3 -t 2 -c 1024 > > I run it on two 4G and 8G smp machine. Both can dead lock if I mmap > enough memory. > Are you sure it's a deadlock? A large MAP_SHARED load like this on a 2.4 highmem machine can go into a spin, but it will come back to life after several minutes. - 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/