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 20:43:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 20:43:16 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:31688 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 20:43:16 -0500 Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 17:53:46 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: "Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.20 instability on bigmem systems? Message-ID: <20030314015346.GJ20188@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , "Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200303131627.22572.gregory@castandcrew.com> <20030314004256.GI20188@holomorphy.com> <200303131745.28683.gregory@castandcrew.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200303131745.28683.gregory@castandcrew.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy 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: >> Hmm, slabinfo would be very helpful, as well as meminfo. On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 05:45:28PM -0800, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote: > I'll have to schedule a reboot into that kernel, but I'll try to get it > tonight if at all possible. That's fine; I'm not in a hurry. =) On Thursday 13 March 2003 16:42, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> 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. On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 05:45:28PM -0800, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote: > I'm not familiar with "bh"... where can I read up on what it is? bh == buffer_head. fs/buffer_head.c has the code. -- wli