Hi all,
it seems that sys_msync() has been broken in a way or another, in
-pre9-1. Most prominently, apt-get now freezes while doing
msync(..,..,MS_SYNC). Once that happened, anything which touches anything
in /proc/<pid of apt-get> (ps, top, grep, ls -la) simply freezes in turn.
Running -pre8 +reiserfs-3.6.5 didn't have this problem (it had atrocious
VM performance for 96 Mb, coupled with the usual kswapd bug).
I'm currently running -pre9-1 +reiserfs-3.6.5+classzone28, which does
display this problem (but whose kswapd has survived 600Mb-pnmcrop
processes with flying colours).
I've recompiled -pre9-1 and -pre9-2 without classzone28, still no go
(didn't actually tested the VM 'performance' with these kernels).
-- Cyrille
muscat%cat /proc/meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 96190464 92499968 3690496 0 1069056 22384640
Swap: 664121344 13344768 650776576
MemTotal: 93936 kB
MemFree: 3604 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 1044 kB
Cached: 21860 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 93936 kB
LowFree: 3604 kB
SwapTotal: 648556 kB
SwapFree: 635524 kB
muscat%cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 5
model : 6
model name : AMD-K6tm w/ multimedia extensions
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 199.909688
cache size : 64 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mmx
bogomips : 398.95
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Grumpf.
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