Re: 2.4.20 instability on bigmem systems?

From: William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Date: Thu Mar 13 2003 - 20:53:46 EST


On Thursday 13 March 2003 16:42, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Hmm, slabinfo would be very helpful, as well as meminfo.

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 05:45:28PM -0800, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
> I'll have to schedule a reboot into that kernel, but I'll try to get it
> tonight if at all possible.

That's fine; I'm not in a hurry. =)

On Thursday 13 March 2003 16:42, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> You might need bh stuff (memclass-related or something like it) if it's
>> general disk io. Can't be too sure until slabinfo + meminfo materialize.

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 05:45:28PM -0800, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
> I'm not familiar with "bh"... where can I read up on what it is?

bh == buffer_head. fs/buffer_head.c has the code.

-- wli
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