From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Norman Gaywood <norm@turing.une.edu.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Maybe a VM bug in 2.4.18-18 from RH 8.0?
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 17:34:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DEFFEAA.6B386051@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20021206011733.GF1567@dualathlon.random
Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> ...
> He may still suffer other known problems besides
> the above two critical highmem fixes (for example if
> lower_zone_reserve_ratio is not applied and there's no other fix around
> it IMHO, that's generic OS problem not only for linux, and that was my
> only sensible solution to fix it, the approch in mainline is way too
> weak to make a real difference)
argh. I hate that one ;) Giving away 100 megabytes of memory
hurts.
I've never been able to find the workload which makes this
necessary. Can you please describe an "exploit" against
2.4.20 which demonstrates the need for this?
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-06 1:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-06 0:13 Maybe a VM bug in 2.4.18-18 from RH 8.0? Norman Gaywood
2002-12-06 1:00 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-06 1:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-06 1:34 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-12-06 1:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-06 2:15 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 2:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-06 2:41 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 5:25 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-06 5:48 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-06 6:14 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 6:55 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-06 7:14 ` GrandMasterLee
2002-12-06 7:25 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-06 7:34 ` GrandMasterLee
2002-12-06 7:51 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-06 11:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-12-06 16:19 ` GrandMasterLee
2002-12-06 14:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-06 15:12 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 23:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-06 23:45 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 23:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-06 6:00 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 22:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-06 23:21 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 23:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-07 0:30 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-07 0:01 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-07 0:21 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-07 0:30 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-07 2:19 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-07 1:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-07 1:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-07 2:31 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-07 2:09 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-07 0:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-07 0:35 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-07 0:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-07 10:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-12-06 10:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-12-06 14:23 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 15:12 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 22:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-07 18:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-12-06 1:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
[not found] <mailman.1039133948.27411.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2002-12-06 0:35 ` Pete Zaitcev
2002-12-06 1:27 ` Norman Gaywood
2002-12-06 12:48 ` Rik van Riel
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