Re: [2.2.14 to 2.2.17pre9] infinite or long loop in shrink_mmap()

[Olaf Titz]

> Although I understand we can't leave it that way, I wonder what can be done
> to avoid this problem. concretely, this means that any user would just have
> to call 2 mmap() on the same file to definetely lock the pages and kill the
> system ?

Okay, this explains why my machine still gets the "do_try_to_free_pages
failed" warnings (under 2.2.17pre9) every time when INN's nightly
expire runs although I just added plenty of swap space. Both innd and
expire mmap the history file.

This indicates a serious problem, I think.

Olaf