Re: Gradual VM-related freeze in 2.4.16,17-pre2 !

Andrea Arcangeli
2001-12-05T08:46:47Z

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
> <shrink_caches +57/80>

I never reproduced anything wrong here, testing on highmem and non
highmem. Just in case can you also reproduce with 2.4.17pre1aa1?

Andrea