Re: MM deadlock [was: Re: arca-vm-8...]

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 23 Jan 1999 23:20:59 +0000 (GMT)


> Page aging dramatically increases the amount of CPU time we spend
> looking for free pages. The selection of which pages to swap out really

Thats a bug in our current vm structures, like the others - inability to
throw out page tables, inability to find memory easily, inability to move
blocks to allocate large areas in a target space, inability to handle
large user spaces etc.

At least 2.3 will have plenty of fun things to do 8)

Alan

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