> Andrew did supply a patch for Riel but he did not accept all of it?
>
> Lets see again. Do I understand you correctly:
> rmap 11c fixes the problem #1 but not 11b? are all later
> rmaps good?
I've just tried 11c and 12a. Both are good. The change was made between
11b and 11c.
>
> rmap 11c:
> - oom_kill race locking fix (Andres Salomon)
> - elevator improvement (Andrew Morton)
> - dirty buffer writeout speedup (hopefully ;)) (me)
> - small documentation updates (me)
> - page_launder() never does synchronous IO, kswapd
> and the processes calling it sleep on higher level (me)
> - deadlock fix in touch_page() (me)
> rmap 11b:
>
> Lets see, not oom condition, no dirty buffers (read "only"),
> not documentation, page_launder (no dirty...), not deadlock.
> Remaining is the elevator... And that can really be it!
> (read ahead related too...)
>
> and 2.4.18-pre2 (or later) does not fix it?
I'll try.
>
> 2.4.18-pre2:
> - ...
> - Fix elevator insertion point on failed
> request merge (Jens Axboe)
> - ...
> pre1:
btw... I beleive the error #2 is Tux specific. I'm debugging it now. Sorry
for that
roy
-- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, MCSE, MCNE, CLS, LCAComputers are like air conditioners. They stop working when you open Windows.
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