> the shm swapping still kills the machine(8GB mem) the machine
> with somthing like '__alloc_pages failed order 0'.
>
> When I do the same stresstest with mmaped file in ext2 the
> machine runs fine but the processes do not do anything and
> vmstat/ps lock up on these processes.
This may be a highmem bounce-buffer creation deadlock. Do
your tests work if you use only 800 MB of RAM ?
Shared memory swapping on my 64 MB test machine seems to
work fine (albeit a bit slow).
regards,
Rik
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