Re: Possible dcache BUG

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 05 August 2004 23:24, Linus Torvalds wrote:

[...]

>I'll commit the obvious one-liner fix, since it might explain _some_
>problems people have seen.
>
>		Linus

I had to reboot late last night, out of memory and things (like 
mozilla (1.7.2) were dying, but nothing in the logs.  Nearly out 
again, now ~40megs free but so far its stable & nothing in swap.  I'm 
getting the impression there is a memory leak somewhere.  OOm hasn't 
killed anything I am using at this time anyway.

Its running like an arthritic dog though, 3 units for seti yesterday, 
s/b 6 to 7.  The gkrellm2 cpu usage display looks plumb normal, so 
I'm a bit puzzled as to why the slowdown, the rest of the system 
'feels good'.

This is with just the 'one liner' on top of rc3 & non-verbose-debug.  
The question is, is rc3-mm1 ready for *me* to try?

I don't want to be the hangup, holding up forward progress, but it 
appears I (& maybe 1 or 2 others) may be exactly that with all this 
time sitting around waiting for the other shoe to drop.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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