Re: VM in 2.4.7-pre hurts...

Mike Galbraith
2001-07-08T17:16:59Z

On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:

> On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
> > is very oom with no disk activity. It _looks_ (xmm and vmstat) like
> > it just ran out of cleanable dirty pages. With or without swap,
>
> ... Bingo. You hit the infamous __wait_on_buffer / ___wait_on_page
> bug. I've seen this for quite a while now on our quad xeon test
> machine, with some kernel versions it can be reproduced in minutes,
> with others it won't trigger at all.
>
> And after a recompile it's usually gone ...
>
> I hope there is somebody out there who can RELIABLY trigger
> this bug, so we have a chance of tracking it down.

Well, my box seems to think I'm a somebody. If it changes it's mind,
I'll let you know. I'll throw whatever rocks I can find at it to get
it all angry and confused. You sneak up behind it and do the stake and
mallot number.

tar -rvf /dev/null /usr/local (10 gig of.. mess) with X/KDE running
seems 100% repeatable here.

'scuse me while I go recompile again and hope it just goes away ;-)

-Mike