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



On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl> writes:
> 
> > 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,
> 
> Yes it does.  We don't pass GFP_WAIT to swap_out(), but that just
> means that the swapout will be done asynchronously.  We are still
> free to write stuff out to swap, and in fact once we hit the limit
> on outstanding IOs we may well block in the write. 

Whoops, I saw that run_task_queue(&tq_disk) had dissapeared
from it's original position but I couldn't find it in it's
new place... /usr/bin/grep has been a real help now you pointed
it out, thanks to you both :)

cheers,

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