Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jul 2002 02:16:22 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] loop.c oopses |
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William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> From watching /proc/meminfo it was clear that there were only 1MB or >> 2MB under writeback, but it also showed that the dirty memory thresholds >> were being exceeded.
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 02:19:46AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Ah, that may well happen with loop. Mark a page clean, "submit" > it and that just goes and marks a different page dirty. > If you could please share the setup details (amount of memory, > file sizes, workload etc) I'll have a look.
The box is an IBM Thinkpad with 256MB of RAM and a 900MHz P-III cpu. No-name IDE disk (believe me, I made sure everything there was expendable), workload being dbench 16 on reiserfs over loop with a 256MB reiserfs loop file. I'm actually not entirely sure what the filesizes were as dbench didn't report that.
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