Re: [BUG] 2.4 VM sucks. Again

Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (roy@karlsbakk.net)
Sat, 1 Jun 2002 14:36:56 +0200


> > I guess it'd work fine with only one machine, as IMO, the problem must be
> > the kernel not releasing buffers
>
> too much variable.
>
> Also keep in mind if you grow the socket buffer to hundred mbyte on an
> highmem machine the zone-normal will finish too fast and you may run out
> of memory. 2.4.19pre9aa2 in such case should at least return -ENOMEM and
> not deadlock.

it's not a highmem machine. And. It's not user space processes using the
memory

-- 
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester

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