Re: Google's mm problem - not reproduced on 2.4.13

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Fri, 2 Nov 2001 19:00:46 +0100


On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 12:51:09PM -0500, Sven Heinicke wrote:
> a bunch of times. Then doesn't free the mmaped memory until file
> system is unmounted. It never starts going into swap.

thanks for testing. This matches the idea that those pages doesn't want
to be unmapped for whatever reason (and because there's an mlock in our
way at the moment I'd tend to point my finger in that direction rather
than into the vm direction). I'll look more closely into this testcase
shortly.

Andrea
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