Re: useless report -- perhaps memory allocation problems in 2.1.12[678]

[Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl>]

On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Jeffrey Hundstad wrote:

> When I was recompiling gimp, with tkRat, and Netscape running it felt
> like the machine was running out of ram. (I've got 128m of ram 128m of

> happens on 2.1.125.  Something has changed for the worse, but it does
> FEEL peppier at the keyboard ;-)

In 2.1.127+ the freeing of memory is done in the context of
programs themselves too and the whole system is busy freeing
memory. This means that the kswapd-loop has now been migrated
into other contexts as well. This, together with the fact that
kswapd never blocks on disk access any more, has caused serious
trouble when a system runs out of memory.

I guess this means I'll have to update and clean my out
of memory killer patch really soon now... :(

cheers,

Rik -- slowly getting used to dvorak kbd layout...
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