Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 17:32:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 17:32:08 -0500 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:12295 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 17:32:03 -0500 Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit To: mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 22:02:41 +0000 (GMT) Cc: riel@conectiva.com.br (Rik van Riel), alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), pavel@suse.cz (Pavel Machek), sabre@nondot.org (Chris Lattner), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (kernel list) In-Reply-To: from "Mikulas Patocka" at Dec 18, 2000 10:46:17 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Imagine that kpiod is slow. try_to_swap_out returns 1 and pretends it > freed something but it didn't. It just passed request to kpiod. There are > no pages to be freed by shrink_mmap. do_try_to_swap_out calls swap_out > several times, then returns. And this repeats again and again. kpiod ceased to exist as of 2.2.19pre2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/