Messages in this thread | | | From | Dieter Nützel <> | Subject | RE: 2.4.17 still croaks under heavy load | Date | Sat, 29 Dec 2001 03:20:38 +0100 |
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Phil Oester worte: > > No RAID1 on disks. > > Here's /proc/meminfo within 1 minute of the box dying last night: > > total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: > Mem: 1054371840 1044684800 9687040 0 7802880 834752512 > Swap: 535797760 7626752 528171008 > MemTotal: 1029660 kB > MemFree: 9460 kB > MemShared: 0 kB > Buffers: 7620 kB > Cached: 811872 kB > SwapCached: 3316 kB > Active: 231880 kB > Inactive: 747344 kB > HighTotal: 131072 kB > HighFree: 1028 kB <--------- See comment below > LowTotal: 898588 kB > LowFree: 8432 kB > SwapTotal: 523240 kB > SwapFree: 515792 kB > > The HighFree value was at 2044 for the prior hour. It went to 1028 > within 1 minute of the box freezing. Out of HighMem??? > > Here's vmstat within 30 seconds of freezing: > > procs memory swap io system > cpu > r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us > sy id > 1 0 0 7448 9536 7616 812092 0 0 932 2 235 577 50 > 1 49 > > Seems VM related.
Hello Phil,
can you please try Andrea Arcangeli's 10_vm-21? ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.17rc2aa2/10_vm-21
I think we need more "pressure" to get these "fixes" into 2.4.18...
Regards, Dieter -- Dieter Nützel Graduate Student, Computer Science
University of Hamburg Department of Computer Science @home: Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de
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