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Re: netbsd-5 deadlocks when memory is low



On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu%netbsd.org@localhost> 
wrote:
> Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
>> My understanding is that the swap I/O code path including underlying
>> bdevs must *never* allocate memory to handle I/O, to resove such a
>> resource shortage situation.  Or the proc doing swap I/O would get
>> stuck somewhere.
>
> I do not see any kernel thread stuck anymore, so is that the problem?

No, it isn't.


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