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From: Stefan Schmidt <zaphodb@zaphods.net>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.10-rc1-mm4 -1 EAGAIN after allocation failure was: Re: Kernel 2.6.9 Multiple Page Allocation Failures
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On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 06:58:31AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > > > Can you try the following patch, please? It is diffed against 2.6.10-rc1,
> > I did. No apparent change with mm4 and vm.min_free_kbytes = 8192. I will try
> > latest bk next.

> > > I set it back to CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP=y and if the application does not freeze
> > > for some hours at this load we can blame at least this issue (-1 EAGAIN) on
> > > that parameter.
> > Nope, that didn't change anything, still getting EAGAIN, checked two times.
> Its not clear to me - do you have Nick's watermark patch in? 
Yes i have vm.min_free_kbytes=8192 and Nick's patch in mm4. I'll try
rc1-bk19 with his restore-atomic-buffer patch in a few minutes.

	Stefan
-- 
The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much.
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