lkml.org 
[lkml]   [1997]   [Nov]   [20]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
Patch in this message
/
SubjectRe: vhand-2.1.64... problems solved - but not all ;)
From
Date
crosser@average.org (Eugene Crosser) writes:

> [Posted and mailed]
>
> Rik,
>
> just to let you know. For me, all 2.1.xx kernels are hanging trying
> to allocate TCP buffers (I reported this problem), and I tried vhand
> patch in the hope that it may help, as it deals with memory management.
>
> Unfortunately, it did not. I got the system hung with the same
> symptoms in less then 24 hours uptime. Also, perfomance of cpu
> intensive applications (mpg123) dropped noticably with vhand.
>
> I have a 120MHz 486dx4 w/16Mb, kernel 2.1.63+vhand-2.1.63.
>
> BTW, Zlatko's patch seemed to cure the hang problem, but after a few
> days, the system freezed anyway at the same place.
>

Hi!

Please apply this small patch and see if it solves your problems.
It definitely solved mine. :)

Regards,

diff -urbBN --exclude-from=exclude linux/mm/slab.c /usr/src/linux/mm/slab.c
--- linux/mm/slab.c Thu Aug 14 05:03:22 1997
+++ /usr/src/linux/mm/slab.c Fri Nov 14 07:44:44 1997
@@ -308,12 +308,12 @@
#define SLAB_MAX_GFP_ORDER 5 /* 32 pages */

/* the 'prefered' minimum num of objs per slab - maybe less for large objs */
-#define SLAB_MIN_OBJS_PER_SLAB 4
+#define SLAB_MIN_OBJS_PER_SLAB 1

/* If the num of objs per slab is <= SLAB_MIN_OBJS_PER_SLAB,
* then the page order must be less than this before trying the next order.
*/
-#define SLAB_BREAK_GFP_ORDER 2
+#define SLAB_BREAK_GFP_ORDER 1

/* Macros for storing/retrieving the cachep and or slab from the
* global 'mem_map'. With off-slab bufctls, these are used to find the
--
Posted by Zlatko Calusic E-mail: <Zlatko.Calusic@CARNet.hr>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
No sense being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway.
\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:40    [W:1.179 / U:0.012 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site