From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 01:34:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 01:34:56 -0400 Received: from nat-pool-rdu.redhat.com ([66.187.233.200]:33061 "EHLO flossy.devel.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 01:34:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 01:41:10 -0400 From: Doug Ledford To: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: balance_dirty_pages broken Message-ID: <20021017054110.GC10276@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20021017043623.GR8159@redhat.com> <3DAE4615.F98B6DE@digeo.com> <20021017052246.GB10276@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021017052246.GB10276@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:22:46AM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > Sure, coming under separate cover. Actually, this isn't needed now I assume ;-) > > err. ramdisk? initrd? If so, does this fix? > > initrd. Will try booting without initrd and see if memcounts go back to > normal. On the current setup, when the thing locks up, Shift-ScrollLock > dumps the meminfo. Of interest here is the line right after the > Zone:HighMem line which reads: > > ( Active:1634 inactive:1603 dirty:4294966795 writeback:0 free:59222 ) > > Booting without initrd solves the lockup issue. It also clears up the > dirty count. So, initrd is what's corrupting things. I'll try the patch > and let you know if it solves the initrd corruption here in a sec. Patch solves the problem. Writes don't hang and Shift-ScrollLock shows a reasonable number for dirty now. -- Doug Ledford 919-754-3700 x44233 Red Hat, Inc. 1801 Varsity Dr. Raleigh, NC 27606