Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 17:23:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 17:23:46 -0400 Received: from packet.digeo.com ([12.110.80.53]:60820 "EHLO packet.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 17:23:46 -0400 Message-ID: <3DB86650.1C48F044@digeo.com> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 14:29:52 -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> <3DB85C1B.62D14184@digeo.com> <20021024212313.GF1398@vmware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Oct 2002 21:29:52.0855 (UTC) FILETIME=[7D66FE70:01C27BA4] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 886 Lines: 22 chrisl@vmware.com wrote: > > > on a 2.4 highmem machine can go into a spin, but it will come back > > to life after several minutes. > > No, it will not come back to life, at least not after several minutes. > And there is not sign it is going to come back to life. A 2.5G machine would, iirc, spin for 3-5 minutes. Umm, probably the time would increase somewhat exponentially with memory size so yes, you could be in for a very long wait. -ac kernels have an lru per zone and so would not be bitten by this failure. If indeed you are striking this problem, which is described at http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-mm/2002-08/msg00049.html - 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/