Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 00:02:03 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Craig Boston <craig@xfoil.gank.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swapping over ggate? Message-ID: <20040519220203.GC845@darkness.comp.waw.pl> In-Reply-To: <200405191649.01185.craig@xfoil.gank.org> References: <200405191112.10072.craig@xfoil.gank.org> <20040519210452.GB845@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <200405191649.01185.craig@xfoil.gank.org>
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--HWxI5u/KE+N5O2im Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 04:49:00PM -0500, Craig Boston wrote: +> 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. +>=20 +> Ah, makes perfect sense. So much for being clever :) +>=20 +> If I hacked up my local ggatel source to make it lock all of its pages, = do you=20 +> think it would be sufficient to prevent that particular deadlock? I'm not sure if you don't find some more, game you are playing is quite risky, but maybe it is worth to try. --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.FreeBSD.org pjd@FreeBSD.org http://garage.freebsd.pl FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --HWxI5u/KE+N5O2im Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAq9lbForvXbEpPzQRApvwAJ9DGxyfux9eBysTm1IYnLLIq5hnuwCeOZ14 GOeTLEpX368/kWZqmM+xBIA= =EwqO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HWxI5u/KE+N5O2im--
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