Subject: Re: Soft update code integrated into the main tree
To: None <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
List: current-users
Date: 11/15/1999 23:05:32
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 03:46:20PM -0600, seebs@plethora.net wrote:
> On BSD/OS systems, there have been occasional chicken-and-egg problems with
> needing to allocate memory to start doing anything that would free up memory
> under *really* heavy load.  The answer support gives is to increase KMEMSIZE,
> and indeed, this works beautifully - I'm wondering if the same advice is
> likely to apply?

I have not seen this situation yet, and I did run some heavy tests.
Kirk made some modifications recently that seemed to be intended to
handle these kind of situations better, and these are all present
in what went into our tree, so..

- Frank