Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Oct 2002 01:41:10 -0400 | From | Doug Ledford <> | Subject | Re: balance_dirty_pages broken |
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On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:22:46AM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > Sure, coming under separate cover.
Actually, this isn't needed now I assume ;-)
> > err. ramdisk? initrd? If so, does this fix? > > initrd. Will try booting without initrd and see if memcounts go back to > normal. On the current setup, when the thing locks up, Shift-ScrollLock > dumps the meminfo. Of interest here is the line right after the > Zone:HighMem line which reads: > > ( Active:1634 inactive:1603 dirty:4294966795 writeback:0 free:59222 ) > > Booting without initrd solves the lockup issue. It also clears up the > dirty count. So, initrd is what's corrupting things. I'll try the patch > and let you know if it solves the initrd corruption here in a sec.
Patch solves the problem. Writes don't hang and Shift-ScrollLock shows a reasonable number for dirty now.
-- Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> 919-754-3700 x44233 Red Hat, Inc. 1801 Varsity Dr. Raleigh, NC 27606
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