Re: Rik spreading bullshit about VM

Rik van Riel
2002-01-16T22:03:19Z

On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Diego Calleja wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > attached) and most important I don't have a single bugreport about the
> > current 2.4.18pre2aa2 VM (except perhaps the bdflush wakeup that seems
>
> Well, I haven't reported it yet, but booting my box with mem=4M
> gave as result: (running 2.4.18-pre2aa2):
> diego# cat /var/log/messages | grep gfp
> Jan 13 15:37:10 localhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed
> (gfp=0xf0/0)

> Each script of /etc/rc.d was killed by VM when it was started,

It seems Andrea's patch backs out a bugfix for this problem
which marcelo and me put into the normal 2.4 kernel ...

regards,

Rik
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