chrisl@vmware.com wrote:
>
> > on a 2.4 highmem machine can go into a spin, but it will come back
> > to life after several minutes.
>
> No, it will not come back to life, at least not after several minutes.
> And there is not sign it is going to come back to life.
A 2.5G machine would, iirc, spin for 3-5 minutes.
Umm, probably the time would increase somewhat exponentially
with memory size so yes, you could be in for a very long wait.
-ac kernels have an lru per zone and so would not be bitten
by this failure. If indeed you are striking this problem,
which is described at
http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-mm/2002-08/msg00049.html
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