On August 26, 2001 09:52 pm, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > On August 26, 2001 08:39 pm, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > > On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > >
> > > > There's an obvious explanation for the high loadavg people are seeing
> > > > when their systems go into thrash mode: when free is exhausted, every
> > > > task that fails to get a block in __alloc_pages will become
> > > > PF_MEMALLOC and start scanning.
> > >
> > > If you ever tested this, you'd know this is not true.
> >
> > Look at this, supplied by Nicolas Pitre in the thread "What version of
> > the kernel fixes these VM issues?":
>
> His kernel is running completely out of memory, with no
> swap space configured.
No, he's streaming mp3's:
> > > > My test consist in compiling gcc 3.0 while some MP3s are continously playing
> > > > in the background. The gcc build goes pretty far along until both the mp3
> > > > player and the gcc build completely jam.
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