Re: Yet more VM writable swap-cached pages

Ganesh Sittampalam (ganesh.sittampalam@magd.ox.ac.uk)
Thu, 09 Jul 1998 23:03:27 GMT

>
>Also we need a sure fire method of provoking the VM error (I can't provoke
>it at the moment, but I'll keep trying to overload the machine so we
>can get more detailed output).

I'd like one too. Once it starts happening, system load
seems to cause more of them but that doesn't seem to be
enough to get it started.

I tried doing a make -j on a kernel to provoke it. My system
went into swapping death (thrashing the hard disk etc) and
then after a while died completely - hard disk access
stopped but it wouldn't respond to anything. I forgot to try
pinging it remotely to see if the networking was alive, but
caps lock etc weren't working so I doubt that networking
would have been.

Bill, should I apply that other patch you posted?

Cheers,

Ganesh

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