Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932329AbVILWrx (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:47:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932331AbVILWrx (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:47:53 -0400 Received: from dvhart.com ([64.146.134.43]:61057 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932329AbVILWrw (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:47:52 -0400 Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 15:47:49 -0700 From: "Martin J. Bligh" Reply-To: "Martin J. Bligh" To: Sonny Rao , Danny ter Haar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.13-mm3 Message-ID: <211430000.1126565269@flay> In-Reply-To: <20050912220617.GA18215@kevlar.burdell.org> References: <20050912024350.60e89eb1.akpm@osdl.org> <20050912145435.GA4722@kevlar.burdell.org> <20050912125641.4b53553d.akpm@osdl.org> <20050912200914.GA13962@kevlar.burdell.org> <20050912220617.GA18215@kevlar.burdell.org> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.2 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1098 Lines: 28 --On Monday, September 12, 2005 18:06:17 -0400 Sonny Rao wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 09:03:12PM +0000, Danny ter Haar wrote: >> Sonny Rao wrote: >> > I assume you're referring to allocating huge pages? I'm not sure how >> > one would test this other than allocating N huge pages, releasing, >> > runing something intensive (like SDET), and then trying to allocate >> > N huge pages again? Or am I off base here? >> >> Run a full-feed usenet server ? ;-) >> I recommend INN .... > > Are you using jumbo frames or anything like that? I can probably > replicate order > 0 allocation failures pretty easily using that, but > I don't know if that's really the issue. Jumbo frames, 8K kernel stacks, CIFS, and possibly NFS (though people dispute that) tend to be the main culprits, in my experience. M. - 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/