Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Apr 2004 06:47:50 +0200 | From | Bongani Hlope <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.5-rc3-aa1 |
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On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 23:22:42 +0200 Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 09:16:20PM +0200, Bongani Hlope wrote: > > On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 05:09:21 +0200 > > Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote: > > > > > The xfs warning during truncate will be fixed with a later update > > > (Nathan is currently working on it). > > > > > > next thing to do is to fixup the merging in mprotect. > > > > > > > I'm running 2.6.5-rc2-aa4, when I woke-up in the morning almost all of > > my memory was gone, but my swap was never touched. I managed to get > > only the output of SysRq-M before it hard-locked. For some reason it > > doesn't swap. I'll try to reproduce. > > weird, it really loks like it doesn't swap anything. At least it's not a > race condition. Which fs are you using? > > can you try to actively push it into swap with a script like this? > > #!/usr/bin/env python > > while 1: > try: > a = 'a' > while 1: > a += a > except MemoryError: > pass >
I'm using ext3. and your script did push things to swap. I'm busy compiling 2.6.5-rc3-aa1 now.
Thanx Andrea [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |