On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:32:21AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Map a big region, start modifying pages. Eventually you will trigger > pageout. The kernel will now proceed to start paging things out: all > at once.
Ok, I see. How about throtteling the creation of new service threads in libpager's ports_manage_multithreaded (eg make it an option to libports). I wouldn't want to make it a fixed limit as this can always potentially lead to a deadlock, but we could limit the number of threads we create in one second. It seems to me that this would sanitize the situation, as it would give the first couple of dozens pager_write_page threads a chance to run and return to the pool before the next couple hundreds are created. Thanks, Marcus _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
