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Re: weird alloc problem
- To: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad(at-nospam)benyossef.com>
- Subject: Re: weird alloc problem
- From: Omer Efraim <omere(at-nospam)tcmail.tau.ac.il>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 22:42:03 +0200
- CC: Ariel Biener <ariel(at-nospam)fireball.tau.ac.il>, Israeli Linux Mailing List <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
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- Organization: Da' Firm
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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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