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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 20:00:21 +0100
From: Marc Lehmann <pcg@goof.com>
To: Mike Galbraith <mikeg@wen-online.de>
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Subject: Re: linux swap freeze STILL in 2.4.x
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On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 05:58:32PM +0100, Mike Galbraith <mikeg@wen-online.de> wrote:
> > Usually I swapon ./swap some 512MB swapfile, but today I forgot it. When the
> > machine started to get sluggish I sent the process a -STOP signal.
> 
> Signal delivery during oomest does not work (last time I tested).
> Andrea fixed this once.. long time ~problem.

Well, the signal delivery seemed to have worked fine - the machine
was quite usable (it swapped a lot, but the system was never unusable
for longer than a second or so). The problem started when I did the
swapon. Well, it didn't start, the system just froze.

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