Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 1 Nov 2001 13:41:12 -0200 (BRST) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: Stress testing 2.4.14-pre6 |
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On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> In article <3BE073B6.BDCB3D56@redhat.com>, > Bob Matthews <bmatthews@redhat.com> wrote: > >Hi Linus, > > > >We've been doing some stress-testing on 2.4.14-pre6 and have encountered > >a couple of problems. The platform is an 8xPIII with 8G RAM and 32G > >swap. After running Cerberus for about 3 hours, the machine hung > >completely. I was not able to switch VC's. > > There is some race somewhere - I've found one interrupt race (that > actually seems to exist in the 2.2.x VM too, but is probably _much_ > harder to trigger where an interrupt at _just_ the right time will > corrupt the per-process local page list. That looks so unlikely that I > doubt that is it, but I'm looking for others (the irq one wasn't even a > SMP race - it's on UP too, surprise surprise). > > Working on it, in other words.
Would you mind to describe this race?
Thanks
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