Re: [patch 00/19] VM pageout scalability improvements

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Mon Jan 07 2008 - 14:08:07 EST


On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Lee Schermerhorn wrote:

> We see this on both NUMA and non-NUMA. x86_64 and ia64. The basic
> criteria to reproduce is to be able to run thousands [or low 10s of
> thousands] of tasks, continually increasing the number until the system
> just goes into reclaim. Instead of swapping, the system seems to
> hang--unresponsive from the console, but with "soft lockup" messages
> spitting out every few seconds...

Ditto here.

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