> On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > > The more serious part of my little alloc adventure is much more dangerous:
> > > Whattaheck happened to my resources?
> > > I _still_ can't log in to that box as a luser (root works).
> > May be memory fragmentation. You need an order 1 allocation for fork(), just
> > to allocate task_struct...
>
> No, 2.4.8 seems to like to soft lockup in cases after it used up all
> swap. I also run some trivial memory stressing tests on a UP, 128 MB,
This may be related to another thread. See the mail "Re: kswapd using all
cpu for long periods in 2.4.9-pre4" posted by Linus a couple of hours ago.
/Tobias
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