Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 23 Sep 2000 10:34:04 -0400 | From | safemode <> | Subject | weird mem crap in test9-pre6 |
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I'd like to start out by saying Rik's latest patch to test8 was working GREAT ....except that deadlock problem which after 7 days of uptime in X
finally occurred. So, I thought, updating to the latest normal kernel should have that and it fixed. Obviously I was wrong. The kernel is displaying either A. the wrong mem usage in ps and /proc/meminfo or B. is totally fucked up in the VM or C. someone decided FULL utilization of
all available memory was necessary in linux. Like the pre-rik vm fixes,
my kernel is now obviously using a whole lot of swap for no apparant reason except the kernel likes to hurt the hdd. Also i'm getting DMA timeouts again causing infinite ide reset loops (which btw are very cool.. you should try it sometimes *hint* someone make a limit where the system just reboots after so many of these damn things ...i see no reason why it should loop to infinite), anyways, if anyone wants some mem info about this tell me ..i'll paste the contents of /proc/meminfo here ..but i'm not sure what else you'll need to figure out why it's being weird.
I'm using linux-2.4.0-test9-pre6 on a pii 300 440lx without DRI and framebuffer but with scsi emu cdrom support. i'm using DMA on one hdd at the moment in hopes it wont timeout ..but i used to be able to use it
on both hdd's. This was compiled by gcc-2.95.2
/proc/mtrr: reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size= 128MB: write-back, count=1 reg01: base=0xec000000 (3776MB), size= 32MB: write-combining, count=1
/proc/meminfo: total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 130060288 127926272 2134016 0 749568 33042432 Swap: 205271040 80523264 124747776 MemTotal: 127012 kB MemFree: 2084 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 732 kB Cached: 32268 kB Active: 15520 kB Inact_dirty: 7912 kB Inact_clean: 9568 kB Inact_target: 300 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 127012 kB LowFree: 2084 kB SwapTotal: 200460 kB SwapFree: 121824 kB
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