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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, andrea@suse.de
Subject: Re: pre5 VM livelock
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 18:45:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BDF3B97.C7AB6CFE@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110301527521.1188-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I just want confirmation that you actually did something that could result
> in this, ie you were testing big processes?

yes.  here's meminfo, FWIW:


[jgarzik@brutus jgarzik]$ cat /proc/meminfo 
        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  391372800 217260032 174112768        0 13025280 163340288
Swap: 418996224        0 418996224
MemTotal:       382200 kB
MemFree:        170032 kB
MemShared:           0 kB
Buffers:         12720 kB
Cached:         159512 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:          39888 kB
Inactive:       137880 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       382200 kB
LowFree:        170032 kB
SwapTotal:      409176 kB
SwapFree:       409176 kB

-- 
Jeff Garzik      | Only so many songs can be sung
Building 1024    | with two lips, two lungs, and one tongue.
MandrakeSoft     |         - nomeansno


      reply	other threads:[~2001-10-30 23:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-30 21:20 pre5 VM livelock Jeff Garzik
2001-10-30 22:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-30 22:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-30 23:18   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-30 23:21     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-30 23:43   ` Jeff Garzik
2001-10-31  0:10     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-31  9:42       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-10-31 11:34         ` Jeff Garzik
2001-10-31 10:23           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-10-30 23:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-30 23:45   ` Jeff Garzik [this message]

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