Re: [PATCH] VM kswapd autotuning vs. -ac7

Rik van Riel
2000-06-03T20:47:37Z

On 3 Jun 2000, Christoph Rohland wrote:
> Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> writes:
> > On 2 Jun 2000, Christoph Rohland wrote:
> >
> > > This patch still does not allow swapping with shm. Instead it
> > > kills all runnable processes without message.
>
> Simply by running
>
> ./ipctst 10 666000000 10 31 20&
> ./ipctst 16 666000000 2 31 20&
>
> But I have to correct me. It does not kill all runnable
> processes, but all I am using like ipctst, vmstat and xterm.

Patch #2 indeed had a big bug that made all systems crash instead
of use swap (missing braces next to a goto), does patch #3 give you
the same behaviour?

regards,

Rik
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