From: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: balance_dirty_pages broken
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 01:41:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021017054110.GC10276@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021017052246.GB10276@redhat.com>
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:22:46AM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote:
> Sure, coming under separate cover.
Actually, this isn't needed now I assume ;-)
> > err. ramdisk? initrd? If so, does this fix?
>
> initrd. Will try booting without initrd and see if memcounts go back to
> normal. On the current setup, when the thing locks up, Shift-ScrollLock
> dumps the meminfo. Of interest here is the line right after the
> Zone:HighMem line which reads:
>
> ( Active:1634 inactive:1603 dirty:4294966795 writeback:0 free:59222 )
>
> Booting without initrd solves the lockup issue. It also clears up the
> dirty count. So, initrd is what's corrupting things. I'll try the patch
> and let you know if it solves the initrd corruption here in a sec.
Patch solves the problem. Writes don't hang and Shift-ScrollLock shows a
reasonable number for dirty now.
--
Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> 919-754-3700 x44233
Red Hat, Inc.
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Raleigh, NC 27606
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-17 5:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-17 4:36 balance_dirty_pages broken Doug Ledford
2002-10-17 5:09 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-17 5:22 ` Doug Ledford
2002-10-17 5:41 ` Doug Ledford [this message]
2002-10-17 5:54 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-17 6:01 ` Doug Ledford
2002-10-17 6:09 ` Andrew Morton
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