Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jul 1997 08:43:37 -0400 (EDT) | From | David C Niemi <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.pre45-5 and 6 |
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On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ok. I'm still accumulating a few fixes, so I'll make a -7 within the hour. > > The worst problem with -6 is that any pipe inodes are irrevocably lost > after being closed, along with the one page of data that they used to > have. That's bad if your benchmark opens a lot of pipes (lmbench does that > for the context switch test - maybe the byte benchmarks do the same?). > > Linus
Yes, there are 2 pipe-oriented benchmarks, one for throughput and one for context-switching, and they are both prior to the hang.
-6 got a little bit farther along, into the 9th Shell1 iteration (i.e. about 8 minutes farther than -5). No oops this time, just the same style of hang as the previous revs.
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