Re: deadlock on 4way machine

From: Tigran Aivazian (tigran@veritas.com)
Date: Tue Nov 21 2000 - 15:31:37 EST


On 21 Nov 2000, Jes Sorensen wrote:

> >>>>> "Tigran" == Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com> writes:
>
> Tigran> Hi, Some processes get stuck in page fault handler for ages
> Tigran> (like for 10 minutes!). The machine still has plenty (3.5G) of
> Tigran> free high memory but zero (2216K) of free low memory.
>
> Including info on the kernel version would kinda help.

that is obtainable by fingering @finger.kernel.org (I only ever use/report
bugs on the latest kernel).

>
> Could you also try to reproduce it without including any binary only
> proprietary kernel modules?
>

that is the tricky question -- i.e. the bugs do not point to those modules
but I need them to produce enough stress on the MM and io subsystem to
trigger the bugs (but then again, I may be wrong and the bugs _do_ point
to those). But yes, I understand this concern and try to reproduce it on
as clean/plain kernel as possible.

Regards,
Tigran

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