Re: 2.6.5-rc3-aa1

[Bongani Hlope]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 23:22:42 +0200
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 09:16:20PM +0200, Bongani Hlope wrote:
> > On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 05:09:21 +0200
> > Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > The xfs warning during truncate will be fixed with a later update
> > > (Nathan is currently working on it).
> > > 
> > > next thing to do is to fixup the merging in mprotect.
> > > 
> > 
> > I'm running 2.6.5-rc2-aa4, when I woke-up in the morning almost all of
> > my memory was gone, but my swap was never touched. I managed to get
> > only the output of SysRq-M before it hard-locked. For some reason it
> > doesn't swap. I'll try to reproduce.
> 
> weird, it really loks like it doesn't swap anything. At least it's not a
> race condition. Which fs are you using?
> 
> can you try to actively push it into swap with a script like this?
> 
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> 
> while 1:
> 	try:
> 		a = 'a'
> 		while 1:
> 			a += a
> 	except MemoryError:
> 		pass
> 

I'm using ext3. and your script did push things to swap. I'm busy compiling 2.6.5-rc3-aa1 now.

Thanx Andrea

Attachment: pgp00000.pgp
Description: PGP signature