Re: [uml-user] v3.0-6726-g250f8e3 core dumped in arch/um/os-Linux/sys-i386/task_size.c:31

2011-07-31 Thread Manfred Haertel, DB3HM
Toralf Förster wrote: > tfoerste@n22 ~/devel/linux $ gdb linux > GNU gdb (Gentoo 7.2 p1) 7.2 > Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. > The

[uml-user] UML and the buffer cache

2011-08-31 Thread Manfred Haertel, DB3HM
After I access some really (hundreds of MB) large files in UML, my UML system and even the applications on the host get slower and slower. I think this comes from the so-called Linux buffer cache. Linux seems to use all free memory pages for buffering disk pages. This is a good idea in a normal