Re: [lc-devel] Lockups in 2.4.17

[David C. <dav...@rc...>]

=A6b =B6g=A4=AD, 2002-01-11 01:54, Rodrigo Souza de Castro =BCg=B9D=A1G
> 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.
> >=20
> > Anyone have experience in this? Thanks.
>=20
> Livio had problems yesterday running a kernel without swap. I think
> that's vswap related and I'll have a look at it.=20
>=20
> Could you please try the 0.21pre5 version I released today to see if
> you can reproce this bug?
>=20
> Regards,
> --=20
> Rodrigo S. de Castro <rc...@im...>

Yes, it also happens without a swap.

David