Hi,
On 19-Oct-00 Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> - *But* only running two processes which malloc() a large memory
> region (read: 10MB each on my 5000/120 w/ 8MB RAM *but* enough
> swap to provide that virtual memory) will lock up the box quite
> predictably...
Yes, swapping is broken on R23000 boxen since quite some time and I haven't had
the time
to track this down. However, reverting a change in include/asmmips/pgtable.h
seems to
help:
--- snip ---
--- pgtable.h.orig Sat Jul 1 12:27:34 2000
+++ pgtable.h Sat Jul 1 17:25:21 2000
@@ -443,9 +443,9 @@
extern void update_mmu_cache(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long address, pte_t pte);
-#define SWP_TYPE(x) (((x).val >> 1) & 0x3f)
-#define SWP_OFFSET(x) ((x).val >> 8)
-#define SWP_ENTRY(type,offset) ((swp_entry_t) { ((type) << 1) | ((offset) <<
8) })
+#define SWP_TYPE(x) (((x).val >> 8) & 0x7f)
+#define SWP_OFFSET(x) ((x).val >> 15)
+#define SWP_ENTRY(type,offset) ((swp_entry_t) { ((type) << 8) | ((offset) <<
15) })
#define pte_to_swp_entry(pte) ((swp_entry_t) { pte_val(pte) })
--- snip ---
Thanks to Richard van den Berg <R.vandenBerg@inter.NL.net> for pointing this
out.
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Regards,
Harald
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