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Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 10:05:44 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH *] 2.4.17 rmap based VM #9
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On 30 Dec 2001, safemode wrote:

> Seems that not all of the live-deadlocks were fixed.  The one i saw in
> the last version is still present.   It occurs when you're heavily
> swapping out and the nall of a sudden require something to heavily swap

I've reproduced it with 'mem=12m'.  It seems the system spends all
of its time in try_to_free_pages() and friends, now I need to find
out why ;)

regards,

Rik
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