Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 13:01:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 13:01:07 -0500 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:40255 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 13:00:50 -0500 Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 19:00:46 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Sven Heinicke Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Daniel Phillips , Ben Smith , Rik van Riel Subject: Re: Google's mm problem - not reproduced on 2.4.13 Message-ID: <20011102190046.B6003@athlon.random> In-Reply-To:

<20011031214540.D1291@athlon.random> <3BE07730.60905@google.com> <15330.56589.291830.542215@abasin.nj.nec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <15330.56589.291830.542215@abasin.nj.nec.com>; from sven@research.nj.nec.com on Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 12:51:09PM -0500 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 12:51:09PM -0500, Sven Heinicke wrote: > a bunch of times. Then doesn't free the mmaped memory until file > system is unmounted. It never starts going into swap. thanks for testing. This matches the idea that those pages doesn't want to be unmapped for whatever reason (and because there's an mlock in our way at the moment I'd tend to point my finger in that direction rather than into the vm direction). I'll look more closely into this testcase shortly. Andrea - 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/