Re: Hangup, cure(?), in 2.1.127
Phil Blecker (tmwg@inxservices.com)
Mon, 9 Nov 1998 23:31:40 -0800
On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 12:53:15PM -0500, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> According to Linus Torvalds:
> > /* max one hundreth of a second */
> > end_time = jiffies + (HZ-1)/100;
> > do {
> > if (!do_try_to_free_page(0))
> > break;
> > + if (nr_free_pages > 2*freepages.high)
> > + break;
> > } while (time_before_eq(jiffies,end_time));
>
> When I first installed 2.1.127 on my laptop I got a few hangups.
> Things weren't completely dead, but they were very weird; it seemed as
> if anything that required disk activity hung for a _long_ time, but
> sometimes succeeded after all.
>
> Applying the above patch _seems_ to have fixed this problem, but I
I just had the same thing happen on a Compaq Pressario 4814, P233, 64M,
XFree86 XVGA, arcnet. Reboot took about an hour.
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