From: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Stress testing 2.4.14-pre6
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 16:24:09 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9rrsv9$b9l$1@penguin.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BE073B6.BDCB3D56@redhat.com>
In article <3BE073B6.BDCB3D56@redhat.com>,
Bob Matthews <bmatthews@redhat.com> wrote:
>Hi Linus,
>
>We've been doing some stress-testing on 2.4.14-pre6 and have encountered
>a couple of problems. The platform is an 8xPIII with 8G RAM and 32G
>swap. After running Cerberus for about 3 hours, the machine hung
>completely. I was not able to switch VC's.
There is some race somewhere - I've found one interrupt race (that
actually seems to exist in the 2.2.x VM too, but is probably _much_
harder to trigger where an interrupt at _just_ the right time will
corrupt the per-process local page list. That looks so unlikely that I
doubt that is it, but I'm looking for others (the irq one wasn't even a
SMP race - it's on UP too, surprise surprise).
Working on it, in other words.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-01 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-31 21:57 Stress testing 2.4.14-pre6 Bob Matthews
2001-11-01 0:40 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-01 16:24 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2001-11-01 15:41 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-11-01 17:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-11-01 17:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-11-01 17:29 ` Arjan van de Ven
2001-11-01 18:15 ` Jens Axboe
2001-11-01 18:20 ` Jeff Garzik
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