Deadlock with 32GB swap-backed md

[David Gilbert]

>>>>> "Kris" == Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> writes:

Kris> In my quest for ever-more-insane things to do to panic package
Kris> build machines, I switched them over to use a 32GB swap
Kris> partition as a swap-backed md, in the hopes of improving build
Kris> times by cutting back on disk accesses.  This seemed to work (I
Kris> wasn't sure you could use this much on i386, but the system let
Kris> me configure as much as 32GB), except two of them have locked
Kris> up.  ps shows

Not that I've looked at this, but isn't MFS constrained by 32 bit
pointers in i386?

Dave.

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