Re: Houston, I think we have a problem

Mike Galbraith
2003-04-27T17:09:23Z

At 07:41 AM 4/27/2003 -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > To reproduce this 100% of the time, simply compile virgin 2.5.68
> > up/preempt, reduce your ram to 128mb, and using gcc-2.95.3 as to not
> > overload the vm, run a make -j30 bzImage in an ext3 partition on a P3/500
> > single ide disk box. No, you don't really need to meet all of those
> > restrictions... you'll see the problem on a big hairy chested box as
> > well, just not as bad as I see it on my little box. The first symptom of
> > the problem you will notice is a complete lack of swap activity along
> > with highly improbable quantities of unused ram were all those hungry
> > cc1's getting regular CPU feedings.
>
>Yes, that's why I don't use ext3 ;-) It's known broken, akpm is fixing it.

I'm not at all convinced (must say I wouldn't mind at _all_ being
convinced) that it's ext3... that just _seems_ to be worst easily
reproducible case for some un-(expletive deleted)-known reason.

-Mike