From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>, CaT <cat@zip.com.au>,
tomlins@cam.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: allow percentile size of tmpfs (2.5.66 / 2.4.20-pre2)
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 13:59:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ov3ckuldre.fsf@sap.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304071245130.1130-100000@localhost.localdomain> (Hugh Dickins's message of "Mon, 7 Apr 2003 12:55:59 +0100 (BST)")
Hi Hugh,
On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> You're supposing that it's tmpfs causing this problem: not at all,
> that's just an easy way to show it. Take away tmpfs, and swapoff
> is still liable to hang, with other tasks OOMing (even when strict
> no-overcommit accounting: I've not yet added the check it needs).
No, I know tmpfs is not faulty :-)
But the hook would give tmpfs the chance to say stop before the mm
layer even tries to do something and where it actually fails to do it
right.
Greetings
Christoph
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-07 11:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2003-04-01 13:38 ` PATCH: allow percentile size of tmpfs (2.5.66 / 2.4.20-pre2) Ed Tomlinson
2003-04-01 14:17 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-01 14:18 ` CaT
2003-04-01 16:27 ` Christoph Rohland
2003-04-01 16:45 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-02 7:20 ` Christoph Rohland
2003-04-02 8:12 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-02 14:44 ` CaT
2003-04-02 17:33 ` Christoph Rohland
2003-04-02 20:44 ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-02 21:04 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-03 7:44 ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-07 8:32 ` Christoph Rohland
2003-04-07 11:55 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-07 11:59 ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
2003-04-04 11:31 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-04-03 5:35 ` CaT
2003-04-03 10:42 ` CaT
2003-04-02 10:04 ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-03 2:54 ` Robert White
2003-04-03 8:35 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-03 20:55 ` Robert White
2003-04-01 14:22 Mikael Starvik
2003-04-01 16:24 ` Christoph Rohland
2003-04-01 18:26 ` Daniel Egger
2003-04-01 19:25 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-01 19:57 ` Daniel Egger
2003-04-02 7:13 ` Christoph Rohland
2003-04-02 7:55 ` Hua Zhong
2003-04-02 10:26 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-03 2:49 ` Robert White
2003-04-03 2:54 ` Hua Zhong
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-01 8:10 CaT
2003-04-01 10:59 ` Xavier Bestel
2003-04-01 11:11 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-01 14:23 ` CaT
2003-04-01 14:43 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-01 14:54 ` CaT
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