Re: [patch] 2.3.99-pre6-3 VM fixed

From: Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Date: Thu Apr 27 2000 - 11:28:32 EST


Hi,

On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 10:36:10AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> The patch runs great in a variety of workloads I've tested here,
> but of course I'm not sure if it works as good as it should in
> *your* workload, so testing is wanted/needed/appreciated...

Well, on an 8GB box doing a "mtest -m1000 -r0 -w12" (ie. create 1GB
heap and fork off 12 writer sub-processes touching the heap at random),
I get a complete lockup just after the system goes into swap. At one
point I was able to capture an EIP trace showing the kernel looping in
stext_lock and try_to_swap_out.

--Stephen

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