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

Christoph Rohland
2000-06-03T09:02:07Z

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.
>
> As I said before, I haven't touched the SHM code at all.
> Also, the shmtest test program runs fine here (except for
> reduced system responsiveness)...
>
> I'm quite interested in how you make your system die by
> using SHM. I haven't succeeded in doing so here...

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.

Greetings
Christoph