Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:42:26 -0300 (BRT) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.23pre4 VM breaks in LTP |
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Andrea, do you have any idea of what could cause this? A missing merge may be the cause, as Andi pointed out. I wont have time to look further into it during the weekend and next week (Europe conferences).
Andi, about the ext3 BUG I'm waiting for Stephen. I remember he knew how to fix the issue but didnt had the patch ready yet sometime ago.
On 18 Sep 2003, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > FYI > > When I run LTP on 2.4.23pre4 the machine deadlocks in mem01. > It is still pingable, but login etc. do not manage to fork anything. > > mem01 simply allocates all free memory and free swap (as seen > in /proc/meminfo) and touches a single page in this mapping, then > exits. > > I saw the problem on a 1GB RAM + 1GB swap x86-64 box > > (note that on 32bit the limit is 1GB max, so in many cases it will > not trigger on 32bit) > > When I change mem01 to allocate 10% less memory it does not hang the box. > And UL -aa kernel also doesn't hang it, so it's probably some half merge. > > Also the ext3 BUG on x86-64 can be also triggered with multiple LTP > runs.
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