Re: [yet another attempt = works!] Re: 2.0.31-pre5

Dr. Werner Fink (werner@suse.de)
Fri, 15 Aug 1997 15:25:11 +0200


> On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, Gadi Oxman wrote:
>
> > Here is another attempt to address the "couldn't get a free page" effect..
> > I think that the basic problem during "bonnie" is:
>
> Heureka, It works!
>
> I applied your patch to a clean pre6 (= I 'patch -p0 -R'ed Krzysztof's
> and Benjamin's patches). The 8th bonnie run is going and no messages
> so far. I knew it would work when It started the second bonnie because
> the machine didn't get jerky at all and swapping was barely hearable.
>
> Wohooaau! Even two simultaneous bonnies won't choke it. Load is < 2
> and the machine is incredibly usable (nonpatched kernel was jerky).
> When it was time for the seeks, load jumped to 7.5 but the machine
> still stayed very usable.
>
> Oops, I'll better jump back to my pants :)

Could you try to boot with only 4MB (mem=4M), add your swap space,
and run badblocks on a big partition.

Werner