Re: 2.4.0-test8-pre1 is quite bad / how about integrating Rik's VM now?

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Sat Sep 02 2000 - 15:56:07 EDT

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    On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
    >
    > In fact, I plan to spend most of my time trying to track down
    > the 2 VM problems on tytso's list:
    >
    > 1) the innd data corruption bug

    This, I think, was due to a bug in ext2 truncate. If so, it should be
    fixed in test8-pre2.

    Al, I think you said you could create the innd problem, and that your fix
    fixed it. Correct?

    > 2) system hangs with 0 free low memory and some free
    > high memory
    >
    > The lru_cache_add() BUG() seems to be defanged for now and
    > isn't very high priority to me...

    I'd like to know what it was. Last I heard, it was still the case of
    "pages just off the freelist had some bits set that they shouldn't have".
    That makes me nervous.

                    Linus

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