From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: chrisl@vmware.com
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chrisl@gnuchina.org,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: writepage return value check in vmscan.c
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 13:46:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DB85C1B.62D14184@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20021024191531.GD1398@vmware.com
chrisl@vmware.com wrote:
>
> ...
> See the comment at the source for parameter. basically, if you want
> 3 virtual machine, each have 2 process, using 1 G ram each you can do:
>
> bigmm -i 3 -t 2 -c 1024
>
> I run it on two 4G and 8G smp machine. Both can dead lock if I mmap
> enough memory.
>
Are you sure it's a deadlock? A large MAP_SHARED load like this
on a 2.4 highmem machine can go into a spin, but it will come back
to life after several minutes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-24 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-24 8:25 writepage return value check in vmscan.c chrisl
2002-10-24 8:36 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-24 9:15 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-24 11:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-24 16:12 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-24 17:59 ` chrisl
2002-10-24 11:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-24 18:30 ` chrisl
2002-10-24 18:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-24 19:14 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-24 19:25 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-24 17:57 ` chrisl
2002-10-24 18:33 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-24 19:15 ` chrisl
2002-10-24 20:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-24 21:17 ` chrisl
2002-10-24 20:46 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-10-24 21:23 ` chrisl
2002-10-24 21:29 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-25 16:11 ` Paul Larson
2002-10-25 16:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-25 17:07 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-25 18:44 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-28 19:17 ` chrisl
2002-10-28 19:53 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-28 20:38 ` chrisl
2002-10-28 21:14 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-28 8:28 ` Christoph Rohland
2002-10-28 18:44 ` chrisl
2002-10-28 19:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-28 19:29 ` chrisl
2002-10-29 6:10 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-10-29 7:08 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-10-28 19:58 ` chrisl
2002-10-28 21:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-30 4:13 ` chrisl
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