Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262903AbUDANij (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Apr 2004 08:38:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262907AbUDANij (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Apr 2004 08:38:39 -0500 Received: from ppp-217-133-42-200.cust-adsl.tiscali.it ([217.133.42.200]:44251 "EHLO dualathlon.random") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262903AbUDANii (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Apr 2004 08:38:38 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 15:38:37 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Marc-Christian Petersen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bongani Hlope Subject: Re: 2.6.5-rc3-aa1 Message-ID: <20040401133837.GD18585@dualathlon.random> References: <20040331030921.GA2143@dualathlon.random> <20040331211620.19a8f725@bongani> <200404011157.33051@WOLK> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200404011157.33051@WOLK> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key: 1024D/68B9CB43 13D9 8355 295F 4823 7C49 C012 DFA1 686E 68B9 CB43 X-PGP-Key: 1024R/CB4660B9 CC A0 71 81 F4 A0 63 AC C0 4B 81 1D 8C 15 C8 E5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 991 Lines: 21 On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 11:57:33AM +0200, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote: > On Wednesday 31 March 2004 21:16, Bongani Hlope wrote: > > Hi Bongani, > > > 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. > > hmm, I am running 2.6.5-rc3-aa1 stuff ontop of 2.6.5-rc3-mm3. It works very > well. What is the value of /proc/sys/vm/swappiness? my script is swapping well for him too, so maybe this was more a genuine deadlock somewhere than something else, it would been interesting to see SYSRQ+P. It's not necessairly related to my changes. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/