On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> >Usually some vmstat output and a description of what's
> >happening from the person experiencing the bug is enough.
>
> Where is this vmstat trace?
>
> >Also, mmap002 on low memory machines seems to be a nice
> >way of causing the same thing (program gets killed even
>
> How can you be sure it's even remotely related if you don't have any
> vmstat trace? Also vmstat isn't carrying too much information, it's only
> the minimum to be able to debug/guess something.
>
> Just think the ramdisk-oom issue fixed in protected-balance patch, that
> was _completly_ unrelated with mmap002 even if it was obviously happening
> during dirty-cache pressure too.
Then fix the mmap002 on a 8Mb box issue in other way 2.2.17pre7 does, so
we can remove sync_page_buffers().
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