From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: devzero-S0/GAf8tV78@public.gmane.org Subject: suse slab testing module "crasher" Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:31:49 +0200 Message-ID: <317948575@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Sender: kernel-testers-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Cc: Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , kernel-testers-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org >Andrew Morton writes: >> >> Doing the same thing on 2.6.26-rc5-mm3, msgctl08 also runs to >> completion, in 20.9 seconds. So >> >> - it got slower > >That is because it scales itself to the number of available msg queues= =2E >So with Nadia's patch there are more and it runs slower. > >In fact it seems to start one process per message queue, so perhaps it= 's=20 >just running out of processes or something. Ok it should not segfault. > >BTW a great way to debug slab corruptions with LTP faster is to run wi= th >a slab thrasher stress module like http://firstfloor.org/~andi/crasher= -26.diff > >-Andi any reason why only suse has this, but not mainline ? i came across that module in suse kernel just some days ago and asked n= ovell ( https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D396132 ) , but th= ey don`t have any objections. chris mason didn`t reply on direct request.... so, if it`s useful, who is reponsible for pushing it upstream ? ______________________________________________________________ Jeden Monat 1 hochkar=E4tiger maxdome-Blockbuster GRATIS! Exklusiv f=FCr alle WEB.DE Nutzer. http://www.blockbuster.web.de -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-tester= s" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html