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Date:      Wed, 19 May 2004 16:49:00 -0500
From:      Craig Boston <craig@xfoil.gank.org>
To:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Swapping over ggate?
Message-ID:  <200405191649.01185.craig@xfoil.gank.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040519210452.GB845@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
References:  <200405191112.10072.craig@xfoil.gank.org> <20040519210452.GB845@darkness.comp.waw.pl>

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On Wednesday 19 May 2004 04:04 pm, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> The biggest problem in your situation is that ggatel(8) works as a
> userland process and I think there is a 100% deadlock when system is
> trying to swap ggatel process out.

Ah, makes perfect sense.  So much for being clever :)

If I hacked up my local ggatel source to make it lock all of its pages, do you 
think it would be sufficient to prevent that particular deadlock?

Thanks,
Craig



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