Re: [BUG] fatal hang untarring 90GB file, possibly writeback related.

Mel Gorman
2011-05-06T08:07:28Z

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On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 08:42:24AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> 1. High-order allocations? You machine is using i915 and RPC, something
> neither of my test machine uses. i915 is potentially a source for
> high-order allocations. I'm attaching a perl script. Please run it as
> ./watch-highorder.pl --output /tmp/highorders.txt
> while you are running tar. When kswapd is running for about 30
> seconds, interrupt it with ctrl+c twice in quick succession and
> post /tmp/highorders.txt
>

Attached this time :/

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

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