Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 16 Mar 2003 18:26:46 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.20 instability on bigmem systems? |
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On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 06:15:11PM -0800, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote: > Okay, I tried to load the system a bit and stress out the disk I/O, running > a couple finds across the whole system (find | xargs stat, find | xargs cat > > /dev/null, a couple other things) after sucking up free memory by catting > our database disk files to /dev/null. I also had a 'make -j5 clean > oldconfig dep bzImage modules' running to try to drive the load up a bit, > too. > I've got snapshots of meminfo, slabinfo, and output from 'ps auxfww' at: > http://castandcrew.com/~gregory/lkmlstuff/burpr/2.4.20/loadtest/ > It only really starts getting interesting after 20030316.1725, when I > started the kernel build. I have a very simple shell script that basically > does nothing other than "make clean oldconfig dep && make -j5 bzImage && > make -j5 modules". I ran that a couple times in the sources for Red Hat's > 2.4.9-e.12 kernel sources. > Surprisingly I wasn't able to grind down the system like I expected. Not > sure why it's behaving so wonderfully today.
If it didn't behave badly then it won't help to look at the stats.
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