Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:05:34 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softdep panic due to blocked malloc (with traceback) Message-ID: <p04330101b62e10aaadd0@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <25669.973620773@critter> References: <25669.973620773@critter>
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At 7:12 PM +0100 11/7/00, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >Matt Dillon writes: > > > I have a complete solution to the low-memory deadlock problem > > under test with Paul Saab, and DG has approved of the idea. As > > soon as both Paul and My machines survive a night of extreme > > memory strain I'll make the patches available generally. > >Could we please have an eventhandler chain which gets called when >we are short of KVM ? There are code which can free KVM with no >significant loss of anything but performance, if only we bother to >tell it to do so. Do you mean something like the SIGDANGER signal, which is available under aix? (I'm just wondering) -- --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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