From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751053AbWF1TWA (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:22:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751056AbWF1TWA (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:22:00 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:37765 "EHLO mail.goop.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751053AbWF1TV7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:21:59 -0400 Message-ID: <44A2D6DA.1050607@goop.org> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:22:02 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060613) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: "Martin J. Bligh" , mbligh@mbligh.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apw@shadowen.org, linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, drfickle@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: 2.6.17-mm2 References: <449D5D36.3040102@google.com> <449FF3A2.8010907@mbligh.org> <44A150C9.7020809@mbligh.org> <20060628034215.c3008299.akpm@osdl.org> <20060628034748.018eecac.akpm@osdl.org> <44A29582.7050403@google.com> <20060628121102.638f08d9.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060628121102.638f08d9.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > Found a way to reproduce it - do `cat /proc/slabinfo > /dev/null' in a > tight loop. With that happening, a little two-way wasn't able to make > it through `dbench 4' without soiling the upholstery. Then bisection-searching. > It's surprising it was so subtle. I'd been running with that code for a month or so without a peep of problem... J