Re: objrmap-core-1 (rmap removal for file mappings to avoid 4:4 in <=16G machines)

From: Andrea Arcangeli
Date: Tue Mar 09 2004 - 10:25:15 EST


On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 04:09:42PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > first of all that this algorithm is running in production just fine in
> > the workloads you're talking about, it's not like I didn't even try
> > it, even the ones that have to swap (see the end of the email).
>
> could you just try test-mmap2.c on such a box, and hit swap?

I will try, to see what happens. But please write an exploit for
truncate too since you obviously can, blaming on the vm is a
red-herring, if the vm has an issue, truncate always had an issue in any
kernel out there since 1997 (the first time I rememeber).

Unless it crashes the machine I don't care, it's totally wrong in my
opinion to hurt everything useful to save cpu while running an exploit.
there are easier ways to waste cpu (rewrite the exploit with truncate
please!!!)
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