Re: writepage return value check in vmscan.c

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Date: Thu Oct 24 2002 - 15:46:19 EST


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.
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