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Re: weird alloc problem



On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Omer Efraim wrote:


I e-mailed Alan Cox, I'll send the reply to the list.

--Ariel
> Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> >
> > >> Ariel Biener wrote:
> > >>> I got this. Anyone has an idea ?
> > >>
> > >> Sounds like a VM problem. Is this a 2.4.x kernel by any chance?
> > >>
> > >>yes.
> >
> > Well the VM code in 2.4.x had some problems all the way up to the
> > 2.4.x-testx releases. The major problems were leak of balance in the new
> > VM code (works great on some setups, less so on others) and memory
> > leaks. The memory leaks were supposed to be fixed in test7 but what
> > you're seeing might suggest they weren't really...
> >
> > This was the focus of a huge thread on the Linux Kernel mailing list
> > between Rik van Riel and Linus, where Rik wanted to put in a patch that
> > he and certain other people said fixes the VM balancing problems
> > 2.4.x-testx was palgued with and Linus didn't like. I don't think Rik's
> > patch got in in the end and you might want to try and apply it yourself
> > if the system is not critical (which shouldn't be running 2.4.x anyway...)
> >
> > Here's a recap of the discussion:
> > http://kt.linuxcare.com/kernel-traffic/kt20000821_81.epl#4
> I'd wait a bit for the "big VM patch" instead of patch the "final"
> 2.4.x with that patch.
> 
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