Re: Linux 2.2.18pre25

Alan Cox
2000-12-08T00:56:16Z

> Such bug can't generate crashes. Did you ever reproduced crashes on your 8Mb
> 486 with 2.2.18pre24?

Yes. Every 20 minutes or so quite reliably. With that change it has yet to
crash (its actually running that + page aging + another minor tweak so it
doesnt return success on page aging until we have a clump of free pages.

With just the page aging patch it performed way better but still hung.

> ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.2/2.2.18pre24aa1/00_account-failed-buffer-tries-1
>

Oh well ;)

> account-failed-buffer-tries-1 is included in VM-global-7 and it was
> described in the 2.2.18pre21aa2 email to l-k (CC'ed you) in date Fri, 17 Nov
> 2000 18:54:43 +0100:

The problem is its hard to know which of your patches depend on what, and
the complete set is large to say the least.

Alan