Re: just a dump

[Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 09:43 +0200, Hans de Bruin wrote:
> 
> [09:09:47 INFO ] Test finished after 1 iterations.
> Memory test passed.
> [09:09:48 DEBUG] Running 'grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo'
> [09:09:48 DEBUG] Running 'rpm -qa'
> [09:09:49 INFO ]                GOOD    dma_memtest     dma_memtest 
> timestamp=1243408189    localtime=May 27 09:09:49       completed 
> successfully
> [09:09:49 DEBUG] Persistent state variable __group_level now set to 1
> [09:09:49 INFO ]        END GOOD        dma_memtest     dma_memtest 
> timestamp=1243408189    localtime=May 27 09:09:49
> [09:09:49 DEBUG] Dropping caches
> [09:09:49 DEBUG] Running 'sync'
> [09:09:51 DEBUG] Running 'sync'
> [09:09:51 DEBUG] Running 'echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches'
> [09:09:52 DEBUG] Persistent state variable __group_level now set to 0
> [09:09:52 INFO ] END GOOD       ----    ----    timestamp=1243408192 
> localtime=May 27 09:09:52
> 
> Well that looks good. The web page talks about forcing the system to 
> swap. That never happend swap usage is still 0 bytes. I installed 
> autotest on the same lv (3 disk stripe) as the vmdisks.

Interesting, about that I made some tests and just realized that in some
cases both mine and the original shell implementation are failing on
forcing the system to go to swap (the tests I made when the test was
firstly implemented did manage to make the machines swap, but in
conditions where the system had a significantly higher initial memory
usage). I will work on a better heuristic to force swap.

Thanks for pointing this out,

-- 
Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
Software Engineer (QE)
Red Hat - Emerging Technologies