Re: 2.6.5-rc3-aa1

From: Andrea Arcangeli
Date: Thu Apr 01 2004 - 08:41:12 EST


On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 11:57:33AM +0200, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 March 2004 21:16, Bongani Hlope wrote:
>
> Hi Bongani,
>
> > I'm running 2.6.5-rc2-aa4, when I woke-up in the morning almost all of my
> > memory was gone, but my swap was never touched. I managed to get only the
> > output of SysRq-M before it hard-locked. For some reason it doesn't swap.
> > I'll try to reproduce.
>
> hmm, I am running 2.6.5-rc3-aa1 stuff ontop of 2.6.5-rc3-mm3. It works very
> well. What is the value of /proc/sys/vm/swappiness?

my script is swapping well for him too, so maybe this was more a
genuine deadlock somewhere than something else, it would been
interesting to see SYSRQ+P. It's not necessairly related to my changes.
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