Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 03:45:43 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: per-process shared information
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On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 06:47:11PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>> Nick has been working on that lately I think. What is the problem?

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 01:58:45AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> things went worse with the switch from 2.6.8 to 2.6.9-rc, so that's not
> the nr_swap_pages > 0, likely the latest changes introduced regressions
> instead of fixing them.
> I'm seeing both hard deadlocks and suprious oom kills, and that all
> makes sense, I can see the bugs, it's just I need to fix them, my plan
> is to forward port some code from 2.4 which works fine, objrmap will make
> it even better.

I'm not aware of these. If you could relay some of that information to
me (SuSE bugzilla numbers and similar are fine) I'd be much obliged.


-- wli
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