On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Ken Brownfield wrote:
> A) VM has major issues
> 1) about a dozen recent OOPS reports in VM code
> 2) VM falls down on large-memory machines with a
> high inode count (slocate/updatedb, i/dcache)
> 3) Memory allocation failures and OOM triggers
> even though caches remain full.
> 4) Other bugs fixed in -aa and others
> B) Live- and dead-locks that I'm seeing on all 2.4 production
> machines > 2.4.9, possibly related to A. But how will I
> ever find out?
I've spent ages trying to fix these bugs in the -ac kernel,
but they got all backed out in search of better performance.
Right now I'm developing a VM again, but I have no interest
at all in fixing the livelocks in the main kernel, they'll
just get removed again after a while.
If you want to test my VM stuff, you can get patches from
http://surriel.com/patches/ or direct access at the bitkeeper
tree on http://linuxvm.bkbits.net/
cheers,
Rik
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