From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Om Narasimhan <om.turyx@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: what is the expected behaviour under extreme high load.
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 19:22:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060907192234.GF8793@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6b4e42d10609061653p608a2947g1943b3d752855dfe@mail.gmail.com>
Hi!
> I am running a stress test on my SunFire 4600 (8x2core,
> 64G) using the
> mem_test available from
> http://carpanta.dc.fi.udc.es/~quintela/memtest. I am
> using SuSE
> enterprise 9 SP3.
Try running w/o watchdog.
> I am wondering what is the expected behaviour of a
> machine under
> extreme VM stress.
> When I stress the system to the limits, it practically
> becomes
> unresponsive. It runs for almost half an hour and then
> it crashes
> because of a CPU lockup.
> Any pointers from where I can start debugging this issue?
Try vanilla kernel, first...
--
Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-07 19:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-06 23:53 what is the expected behaviour under extreme high load Om Narasimhan
2006-09-07 0:55 ` Parag Warudkar
2006-09-07 19:22 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2006-09-08 0:21 ` Andrew Morton
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