Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: What version of the kernel fixes these VM issues? | Date | Fri, 24 Aug 2001 21:53:53 +0200 |
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On August 24, 2001 08:14 pm, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > Please try 2.4.9 and 2.4.8-ac10. If the system slows down, look in your logs > > and see if there are any "allocation failed" messages. Use top or do watch > > cat /proc/meminfo to be sure your system isn't going into swap, and please > > let us know what happens. > > I have a totally different setup but I can reproduce the same behavior on > the system I have here: > > ARM board with 32 MB RAM, no flash, NFS root. > The kernel is based on 2.4.8-ac9 plus some small VM fixes from -ac10.
What happens with 2.4.9?
> My test consist in compiling gcc 3.0 while some MP3s are continously playing > in the background. The gcc build goes pretty far along until both the mp3 > player and the gcc build completely jam. Oh maybe not completely as I get > about 100ms of audio playing every 10 secs. bash starts echoing what I type > one char per approx 5 sec. The only thing that still works fine is the > magic sysrq that clearly shows that the CPU is spinning in the VM code. NFS > trafic is also going on full bandwidth but no progress ever happens in user > space. > > My console is on a serial port so if someone can send me a patch with > whatever printks to trace what's happening in real time I'll be glad to > provide the trace file. Reaching the jam state takes about 5 minutes so > it's not hard to reproduce.
Try:
watch cat /proc/meminfo
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