cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_sig.c

Jeremie Le Hen jeremie at le-hen.org
Sat Mar 5 07:43:40 PST 2005


> for a start I'd like to add a sysctl to turn off swapping out kernel 
> stacks..
> then if someone had a reproducible or atleast 'common" problem,
> we could suggest turning it off to see
> if it fixes the problem.. that would be a big smoking gun..

If I understand correctly, the problem with swapping is that it's
highly non-deterministic.  Therefore having kthread swapping disabled
would not tell us whether the bug is really avoided or if we are just
fortunate enough to not trigger it.

Regards,
-- 
Jeremie Le Hen
jeremie at le-hen dot org


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