Re: [PATCH] fix for VM test9-pre7

2000-10-04 Thread Christoph Rohland
Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2 Oct 2000, Christoph Rohland wrote: > > > the shm swapping still kills the machine(8GB mem) the machine > > with somthing like '__alloc_pages failed order 0'. > > > > When I do the same stresstest with mmaped file in ext2 the > > machine runs fine

Re: [PATCH] fix for VM test9-pre7

2000-10-04 Thread Christoph Rohland
Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 2 Oct 2000, Christoph Rohland wrote: the shm swapping still kills the machine(8GB mem) the machine with somthing like '__alloc_pages failed order 0'. When I do the same stresstest with mmaped file in ext2 the machine runs fine but the

Re: [PATCH] fix for VM test9-pre7

2000-10-02 Thread Rik van Riel
On 2 Oct 2000, Christoph Rohland wrote: > the shm swapping still kills the machine(8GB mem) the machine > with somthing like '__alloc_pages failed order 0'. > > When I do the same stresstest with mmaped file in ext2 the > machine runs fine but the processes do not do anything and > vmstat/ps

Re: [PATCH] fix for VM test9-pre7

2000-10-02 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Rik, the shm swapping still kills the machine(8GB mem) the machine with somthing like '__alloc_pages failed order 0'. When I do the same stresstest with mmaped file in ext2 the machine runs fine but the processes do not do anything and vmstat/ps lock up on these processes. Greetings

Re: [PATCH] fix for VM test9-pre7

2000-10-02 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:42:47AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > --- linux-2.4.0-test9-pre7/fs/buffer.c.orig Sat Sep 30 18:09:18 2000 > > +++ linux-2.4.0-test9-pre7/fs/buffer.c Mon Oct 2 00:19:41 2000 > > @@ -706,7 +706,9 @@ > > static void

Re: [PATCH] fix for VM test9-pre7

2000-10-02 Thread ehrhardt
Hi, On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:42:47AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > --- linux-2.4.0-test9-pre7/fs/buffer.c.orig Sat Sep 30 18:09:18 2000 > +++ linux-2.4.0-test9-pre7/fs/buffer.cMon Oct 2 00:19:41 2000 > @@ -706,7 +706,9 @@ > static void refill_freelist(int size) > { > if

Re: [PATCH] fix for VM test9-pre7

2000-10-02 Thread ehrhardt
Hi, On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:42:47AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: --- linux-2.4.0-test9-pre7/fs/buffer.c.orig Sat Sep 30 18:09:18 2000 +++ linux-2.4.0-test9-pre7/fs/buffer.cMon Oct 2 00:19:41 2000 @@ -706,7 +706,9 @@ static void refill_freelist(int size) { if

Re: [PATCH] fix for VM test9-pre7

2000-10-02 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:42:47AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: --- linux-2.4.0-test9-pre7/fs/buffer.c.orig Sat Sep 30 18:09:18 2000 +++ linux-2.4.0-test9-pre7/fs/buffer.c Mon Oct 2 00:19:41 2000 @@ -706,7 +706,9 @@ static void

Re: [PATCH] fix for VM test9-pre7

2000-10-02 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Rik, the shm swapping still kills the machine(8GB mem) the machine with somthing like '__alloc_pages failed order 0'. When I do the same stresstest with mmaped file in ext2 the machine runs fine but the processes do not do anything and vmstat/ps lock up on these processes. Greetings

Re: [PATCH] fix for VM test9-pre7

2000-10-02 Thread Rik van Riel
On 2 Oct 2000, Christoph Rohland wrote: the shm swapping still kills the machine(8GB mem) the machine with somthing like '__alloc_pages failed order 0'. When I do the same stresstest with mmaped file in ext2 the machine runs fine but the processes do not do anything and vmstat/ps lock up

[PATCH] fix for VM test9-pre7

2000-10-01 Thread Rik van Riel
Hi, The attached patch seems to fix all the reported deadlock problems with the new VM. Basically they could be grouped into 2 categories: 1) __GFP_IO related locking issues 2) something sleeps on a free/clean/inactive page goal that isn't worked towards The patch has survived some heavy

[PATCH] fix for VM test9-pre7

2000-10-01 Thread Rik van Riel
Hi, The attached patch seems to fix all the reported deadlock problems with the new VM. Basically they could be grouped into 2 categories: 1) __GFP_IO related locking issues 2) something sleeps on a free/clean/inactive page goal that isn't worked towards The patch has survived some heavy