Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac17

2001-05-27 Thread Alan Cox
> Yes.. seems the caches need some size limits. ramfs will lock you in > a heart beat if you hit oom. (i made a typo during iozone run.. oops:) ramnfs has resource limits in -ac for a reason. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [E

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac17

2001-05-27 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 27 May 2001, Jaswinder Singh wrote: > > Does it hang if you are doing other things than creating/destroying > > tiny files (with unique names) as rapidly as possible?.. ie did you > > start doing that to troubleshoot because it was hanging over a long > > period of time? > > > > If i crea

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac17

2001-05-26 Thread Jaswinder Singh
Dear Mike, "Mike Galbraith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > > Exactly. Nothing but ram and it's mostly unfreeable. That makes > life pretty tough for the vm. > This is not a good concept at all , why linux is wasting precious RAM unnecassarily, if not required . Then what will happen for Embed

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac17

2001-05-26 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sat, 26 May 2001, Jaswinder Singh wrote: > > The OS resides on disk, yes. I suppose I could plunk a minimal > > system into ramfs, pivot_root and umount disk, but I don't see > > any way that could matter for a memory leak. > > > > It is very difficult to see memory leak , with hard disks .

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac17

2001-05-26 Thread Jaswinder Singh
> > The OS resides on disk, yes. I suppose I could plunk a minimal > system into ramfs, pivot_root and umount disk, but I don't see > any way that could matter for a memory leak. > It is very difficult to see memory leak , with hard disks . As i told you , in my case i am using no harddisks , o

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac17

2001-05-26 Thread Jaswinder Singh
> > The OS resides on disk, yes. I suppose I could plunk a minimal > system into ramfs, pivot_root and umount disk, but I don't see > any way that could matter for a memory leak. > It is very difficult to see memory leak , with hard disks . As i told you , in my case i am using no harddisks , o

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac17

2001-05-25 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Jaswinder Singh wrote: > Dear Mike , > > Are you using harddisk ? The OS resides on disk, yes. I suppose I could plunk a minimal system into ramfs, pivot_root and umount disk, but I don't see any way that could matter for a memory leak. (hmm.. locking up tho. script make

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac17

2001-05-25 Thread Jaswinder Singh
Dear Mike , Are you using harddisk ? Jaswinder. - Original Message - From: "Mike Galbraith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jaswinder Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Alan Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 25,

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac17

2001-05-25 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Jaswinder Singh wrote: > Dear Mike , > > > > > This one I tested with memleak. It wasn't a leak, it was dcache > > growth. Under vm stress, it shrank down fine. > > > > It will depends upon lot of thing :- > 1.What is your size of ramfs , unlimited. > 2. Are you using any h

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac17

2001-05-24 Thread Jaswinder Singh
Dear Mike , > > This one I tested with memleak. It wasn't a leak, it was dcache > growth. Under vm stress, it shrank down fine. > It will depends upon lot of thing :- 1.What is your size of ramfs , 2. Are you using any harddisk , 3. How many many files are you creating , 4. How frequently you

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac17

2001-05-24 Thread Jaswinder Singh
mdisk Initailization or uninitialised memory problem. But i faced no problem with 2.2.12 kernel. ### Thank you, Best Regards, Jaswinder. -- These are my opinions not 3Di. --- - Original Message - From: "Alan Cox&q

Linux 2.4.4-ac17

2001-05-24 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org In terms of going through the code audit almost all the sound drivers still need fixing to lock against format changes during a r