possible shmswap deadlock 2.3.28

Mike Galbraith (mikeg@weiden.de)
Mon, 15 Nov 1999 05:45:17 +0100 (CET)


Hi,

Keith Owens reported a swap loop in 2.3.24 when swap is exausted, and
I confirmed this on my box. In 2.3.28 I tried exausting swap again,
and found that now the memory hog is always killed if it's a normal
memory eater. However, if I use shmtst posted by Manfred Spraul to
exaust swap, and the box hard locks. (will try semaphore deadlock
detection in ikd and see if it will oops)

-Mike

doctor it hurts when I do that? :)

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