From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Cc: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Large slab cache in 2.6.1
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 23:20:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40385838.3030500@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40385306.6090301@cyberone.com.au>
Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>
> Mike Fedyk wrote:
>> I'll have to test the kernel on two other machines for a few days
>> before I put it on this particular machine. Unfortunately, both of
>> them have < 1.5GB ram.
>>
>
> That is quite alright. I didn't intend to sound pushy in that
> message, and I fully understand if you refuse to test patches on
> your production machine.
No problem. It is really sad when a problem could be fixed if only the
origional reporter put more effort into testing the proposed fixes.
Heh, so let me keep from being one of those reporters...
>
>> So let me know which patches are most likely to fix this problem.
>>
>> PS, if I can apply them to my 2.6.1 kernel, then I wouldn't have to
>> run the base kernel to compare changes of 2.6.1 -> 2.6.3 -> 2.6.3-mm
>> -> your patch.
>>
>> Each step would require a week-day to get a fair compairison.
>>
>
> The last patch I posted would be a good one to test if you possibly
> can. You should hear someone shout within a few days if it does
> anything nasty, so the 2.6.3-mm+patch path is probably safer ;)
>
Ok, I'll get started compiling tonight. Be sure to CC me if you have
any updates to this patch.
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-22 7:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-22 0:50 Large slab cache in 2.6.1 Mike Fedyk
2004-02-22 1:09 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-22 1:20 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-02-22 2:03 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-22 2:17 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-02-22 2:38 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 2:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-02-22 2:40 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-22 2:58 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 2:33 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 2:46 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 2:54 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 2:36 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-02-22 3:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-22 3:11 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-02-22 3:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-22 3:29 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-02-22 3:31 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-02-22 4:01 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 4:10 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 4:30 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 4:41 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-22 5:37 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 5:44 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-02-22 5:52 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 5:50 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-22 6:01 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 6:17 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-22 6:35 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 6:57 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-22 7:20 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 8:36 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-02-22 9:13 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-23 0:16 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-23 0:26 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-23 0:34 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-23 0:46 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-23 0:54 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-23 1:00 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-23 1:06 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 6:45 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-22 6:58 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 7:20 ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2004-02-22 6:09 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-22 17:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-23 0:29 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-22 6:15 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-22 16:08 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-02-22 17:55 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-23 3:45 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-22 21:13 ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-02-22 14:03 ` Ed Tomlinson
2004-02-23 2:28 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-23 3:33 ` Ed Tomlinson
2004-02-22 3:21 ` Mike Fedyk
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2004-02-22 11:00 Manfred Spraul
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