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, 13 Mar 2003 20:35:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 20:35:32 -0500 Received: from sdfw-ext.castandcrew.com ([63.113.17.130]:29429 "EHLO sddev.castandcrew.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 20:35:31 -0500 From: "Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade" To: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: 2.4.20 instability on bigmem systems? Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 17:45:28 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200303131627.22572.gregory@castandcrew.com> <20030314004256.GI20188@holomorphy.com> In-Reply-To: <20030314004256.GI20188@holomorphy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200303131745.28683.gregory@castandcrew.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 13 March 2003 16:42, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > Full details are at > > http://castandcrew.com/~gregory/lkmlstuff/burpr/2.4.20 > > Hmm, slabinfo would be very helpful, as well as meminfo. I'll have to schedule a reboot into that kernel, but I'll try to get it tonight if at all possible. > You might need bh stuff (memclass-related or something like it) if it's > general disk io. Can't be too sure until slabinfo + meminfo materialize. I'm not familiar with "bh"... where can I read up on what it is? Thanks again, Gregory -- Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade Sr. Systems Administrator Cast & Crew Entertainment Services, Inc.