On Tue, 22 May 2001, Peter Wemm wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
>
> > If I have swap (i.e. I've run swapon on a swap partition) the program is kill
> ed
> > by the system fine. If I don't have swap, then both the memkill process adn
> > the swapper process (proc0) are stuck in the "vmwait" wait channel used by
> > VM_WAIT. Any ideas?
>
> This may not be a new problem. I have seen a lot of machines hit this
> sort of thing at work. It can end up in the majority of processes on
> the system in this state.
des's adsp.c test program caused this here on a machine with 64MB RAM and
132MB swap. No progress was made killing `bigproc' because everything
gets stuck on "vmwait". It is hard to see where the get stuck because
the "vmwait" label is far from unique. It is used in both the vm_wait()
and the vm_await() functions which are called from all over.
Bruce
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