On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> >Then fix the mmap002 on a 8Mb box issue in other way 2.2.17pre7 does, so
> >we can remove sync_page_buffers().
>
> Could you tell me why the fact mmap002 fails on a 8mbyte box is a
> showstopper for you?
Because killing a process, whatever that process is, if you have swap
space available, is logically wrong.
Also it happens with 32Mb of RAM, and worst, syslogd was killed!
> Does your installer uses a ramdisk? If yes I repeat to use the
> protected-balance patch in my ftp area and you'll get your probelm fixed
> (unless your installer install using MAP_SHARED I/O instead of write(2)
> and that would be a bad(tm) idea anyway).
>
> I am very concerned on mmap002 failing on 2.4.x but the 2.2.x VM is ugly
> anyway in handling the writeable mappings and accounting for the amount of
> dirty pages not mapped on the fs side is not trivial there.
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