Re: swapper BIG problems

1999-02-05 Thread John Saunders
In nlc.lists.freebsd-current you wrote: > If you looked at the "prgram" (term used loosely) it touches every bit of > memory it allocates. I seemed to have overlooked the bit where you wrote deadbeef. I took a closer look. What I think is happening is that as the blocks are allocated and then tou

Re: swapper BIG problems

1999-02-05 Thread Brian Feldman
On 5 Feb 1999, John Saunders wrote: > In nlc.lists.freebsd-current you wrote: > > It succeeds as per allocating the memory until the swap is full. But, when > > Malloc's don't cause swap space allocation. Theoretically a process can > malloc all of it's virtual address space so long as it doesn't

Re: swapper BIG problems

1999-02-04 Thread John Saunders
In nlc.lists.freebsd-current you wrote: > It succeeds as per allocating the memory until the swap is full. But, when Malloc's don't cause swap space allocation. Theoretically a process can malloc all of it's virtual address space so long as it doesn't touch the pages. > it starts the reading/free

Re: swapper BIG problems

1999-02-04 Thread Brian Feldman
If I do a little --- swap_pager.c.orig Thu Feb 4 23:30:43 1999 +++ swap_pager.cThu Feb 4 23:31:22 1999 @@ -203,8 +203,10 @@ swp_sizecheck() { if (vm_swap_size < nswap_lowat) { +/* if (swap_pager_full == 0) printf("swap_pager: out of swap