Re: PROBLEM: do_try_free_pages failed for python

2000-11-30 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 02:06:55PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > still had lots of swap free, this may mean that VM > in 2.2 still has some bugs left ... I guess it's the free_before_allocate band-aid that hurts in 2.2. That subtle race condition is fixed efficiently in VM-global with per-process

Re: PROBLEM: do_try_free_pages failed for python

2000-11-30 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Bob Tanner wrote: > [1.] One line summary of the problem: PROBLEM: do_try_free_pages > failed for python > > [2.] Full description of the problem/report: Running 2.2.18pre22 > on a dual Sparc20 with 128Mb of RAM. The important thing to know here is if you had swap free when