Re: New Linux-MM homepage

[ebiederm+eric@npwt.net (Eric W. Biederman)]

>>>>> "RR" == Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl> writes:

RR> On 19 Jun 1998, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

RR> Well, there are several cases where we 'forget' about
RR> shared area's. One of them is where SysV shared memory
RR> is unmapped from all processes but the handle remains.
RR> Since we do page scanning by process, we can't find
RR> such an area. I don't know if this has been fixed by
RR> now, but I certainly remember the messages about it...

I hadn't quite categorized it that way.  
But I both discovered the problem and have posted a fix to linux-mm
that should work.

So for that case of swapoff we are fine.  Or should be soon :)
Now if there are any other cases I don't know about.

I was afraid you were talking about a memory leak...

Eric