From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 03:46:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 03:46:37 -0500 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:18496 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 03:46:22 -0500 Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 09:46:32 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Cyrille Chepelov Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Gradual VM-related freeze in 2.4.16,17-pre2 ! Message-ID: <20011205094632.Q3447@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20011205055509.GB11283@calixo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <20011205055509.GB11283@calixo.net>; from cyrille@chepelov.org on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 06:55:09AM +0100 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 06:55:09AM +0100, Cyrille Chepelov wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've converted yesterday my router, which until now had been happily running > ext2+2.4.13-pre2 on 8 MB of RAM + 200 MB of swap, to the ext3 + 2.4.16 (and > 2.4.17-pre2) combinations (still eight megs of RAM, unfortunately 8-bit > SIMMs ain't cheap nowadays). > > Now, as soon as the system gets some use (inetd kicks exim in, one ssh > attempt, etc.), most processes go freeze themselves into > I never reproduced anything wrong here, testing on highmem and non highmem. Just in case can you also reproduce with 2.4.17pre1aa1? Andrea