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Date:      Tue, 22 May 2001 18:48:14 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: I broke swapping 
Message-ID:  <20010523014814.4A2E2380A@overcee.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010522180424.jhb@FreeBSD.org> 

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John Baldwin wrote:

> If I have swap (i.e. I've run swapon on a swap partition) the program is kill
    ed
> by the system fine.  If I don't have swap, then both the memkill process adn
> the swapper process (proc0) are stuck in the "vmwait" wait channel used by
> VM_WAIT.  Any ideas?

This may not be a new problem.  I have seen a lot of machines hit this
sort of thing at work.  It can end up in the majority of processes on
the system in this state.

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5


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