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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
	Matthias Mueller <matthias.mueller@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>,
	axboe@suse.de, m.c.p@wolk-project.de, manish@storadinc.com,
	marcelo@conectiva.com.br, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ...
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 18:19:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030529161908.GO1453@dualathlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030529135508.GC21673@alpha.home.local>

On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 03:55:08PM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> So, could the people who report long hangs retry with swap disabled ?
> Can we limit the amount of memory consummed by the cache during such a write ?

the vm should be (i.e. is supposed to be) smart enough not to unmap
anything significant just because of large writes. I'm sure it's not
swapping anything on my desktop during write flood (and certainly not
the mouse pointer) but checking with swapoff is certainly a good hint to
be sure.

Andrea

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-29 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 142+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-27  3:41 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page manish
2003-05-27  4:03 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-05-27  4:25   ` manish
2003-05-27  4:59     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-05-27 15:29       ` manish
2003-05-27 16:59         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-05-27  4:31   ` manish
2003-05-27 14:14   ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-05-27 14:28     ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-27 17:27     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-05-27 17:36       ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-05-27 17:47         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-05-27 17:52           ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-05-27 17:57             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-05-27 18:08               ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-05-27 18:25                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-27 18:33                   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-05-27 18:39                     ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-05-27 19:00                       ` manish
2003-05-27 19:01                         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-05-27 19:09                           ` manish
2003-05-27 19:12                           ` manish
2003-05-27 19:28                             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-05-27 19:34                               ` manish
2003-05-27 20:20                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-27 20:25                                   ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-05-27 20:42                                     ` manish
2003-05-27 20:47                                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-27 20:50                                         ` manish
2003-05-27 21:05                                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-27 20:03                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-27 20:08                       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-05-27 20:25                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-27 22:18                           ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-27 22:38                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-27 22:40                               ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-27 22:58                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-27 20:08                     ` Chris Mason
2003-05-27 18:35                   ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-05-27 20:10                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-27 20:24                       ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-05-27 20:45                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-27 20:53                           ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-05-27 21:00                             ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-27 21:11                               ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-05-27 21:19                                 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-27 20:55                         ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-27 21:05                           ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-27 21:18                             ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-27 21:33                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-27 18:09               ` manish
2003-05-27 17:53           ` manish
2003-05-27 18:01             ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-05-27 18:16               ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-05-27 18:25                 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-05-27 18:12           ` Matthias Mueller
2003-05-27 17:36       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-27 17:38       ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-05-27 17:50         ` manish
2003-05-27 18:04           ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-05-27 23:06             ` Georg Nikodym
2003-05-27 23:26               ` Christopher S. Aker
2003-05-28  5:33             ` Con Kolivas
2003-05-28  6:04               ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-28  7:13                 ` Con Kolivas
2003-05-28  7:13                   ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-28  7:32                     ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-05-28  7:35                       ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-28  7:51                         ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-28  8:30                           ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-28  8:43                             ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-05-28  8:40                           ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-05-28 10:13                           ` Matthias Mueller
2003-05-28 10:18                             ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-28 10:23                             ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-28 10:25                               ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-28 10:48                                 ` Con Kolivas
2003-05-28 10:50                                   ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-28 10:59                                     ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-28 11:17                                       ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-05-28 11:27                                         ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-28 11:31                                           ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-05-28 12:53                                             ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-28 12:58                                               ` Matthias Mueller
2003-05-28 13:07                                               ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-05-28 13:08                                                 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-28 13:16                                                   ` Matthias Mueller
2003-05-28 13:21                                                   ` Con Kolivas
2003-05-28 13:30                                                     ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-05-28 13:33                                                       ` Con Kolivas
2003-05-28 13:27                                                   ` Stefan Foerster
2003-05-28 13:37                                                     ` Stefan Foerster
2003-05-28 14:28                                                   ` Chris Mason
2003-05-28 14:33                                                     ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-28 14:58                                                       ` Chris Mason
2003-05-28 15:39                                                         ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-28 23:38                                                           ` Chris Mason
2003-05-28 13:25                                               ` Stefan Foerster
2003-05-28 18:19                                               ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-05-28 18:32                                                 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-05-28 18:47                                               ` Elladan
2003-05-28 23:03                                                 ` Con Kolivas
2003-05-29 13:09                                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-29 15:04                                                     ` Con Kolivas
2003-05-29 16:23                                             ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-05-28 11:41                                           ` Con Kolivas
2003-05-29 12:52                                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-28 11:03                                   ` Nick Piggin
2003-05-28 10:29                               ` Con Kolivas
2003-05-28 10:29                                 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-05-28 12:10                               ` Matthias Mueller
2003-05-28 12:14                                 ` Matthias Mueller
2003-05-28 12:21                                   ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-05-28 12:23                                     ` Matthias Mueller
2003-05-28 12:28                                       ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-05-28 12:38                                         ` Matthias Mueller
2003-05-29 13:19                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-29 14:10                                   ` Matthias Mueller
2003-05-29 16:22                                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-28 14:00                               ` Con Kolivas
2003-05-29 13:24                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-29 13:55                                   ` Willy Tarreau
2003-05-29 14:09                                     ` Con Kolivas
2003-05-29 14:38                                     ` Matthias Mueller
2003-05-29 16:10                                       ` Willy TARREAU
2003-05-29 14:45                                     ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-05-29 16:06                                       ` Willy TARREAU
2003-05-29 16:49                                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-29 17:46                                           ` Willy Tarreau
2003-05-29 16:19                                     ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2003-05-29  1:32                               ` manish
2003-05-28 10:24                             ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-05-28  7:16             ` Marc Wilson
2003-05-28 19:53               ` David Ford
2003-05-28  9:36             ` Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
2003-05-28  9:45               ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-28  9:53               ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-05-28 10:01                 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-28 10:58               ` Alan Cox
2003-05-29  8:34                 ` Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
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     [not found]         ` <20030528095014$7b21@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-05-28 18:55           ` Thomas Tonino
2003-06-02 10:43             ` Jens Axboe

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