Re: [lc-devel] Lockups in 2.4.17

[Rodrigo S. de C. <rc...@im...>]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:32:50AM +0800, David Chow wrote:
> I happens in 2 situations,
> 1. The beginning to swap out pages, when the memory getting low and
> the kernel beginging to swap out pages, this only happened once, not
> often triggered.
> 2. Swap is gradually increasing, when its full, the machine
> lockup. I think this is not out of memory, infact kernel should free
> up some unused pages or reclaim some swaps. It seems the swap usage
> never decrease, and it seems the kernel have problem freeing up swap
> spaces.
> 
> Anyone have experience in this? Thanks.

Livio had problems yesterday running a kernel without swap. I think
that's vswap related and I'll have a look at it. 

Could you please try the 0.21pre5 version I released today to see if
you can reproce this bug?

Regards,
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Rodrigo S. de Castro <rc...@im...>