Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932100AbVJCBF1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2005 21:05:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932102AbVJCBF1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2005 21:05:27 -0400 Received: from h80ad24a6.async.vt.edu ([128.173.36.166]:22228 "EHLO h80ad24a6.async.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932100AbVJCBF1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2005 21:05:27 -0400 Message-Id: <200510030104.j9314mQC028482@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.1-RC3 To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Dave Kleikamp , Con Kolivas , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.14-rc2-mm1 - ext3 wedging up In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 Oct 2005 12:27:26 +0200." <20051002102726.GB26677@opteron.random> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <200509221959.j8MJxJsY010193@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <200509231036.16921.kernel@kolivas.org> <200509230720.j8N7KYGX023826@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20050923153158.GA4548@x30.random> <1127509047.8880.4.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> <1127509155.8875.6.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> <1127511979.8875.11.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> <20050928223829.GH10408@opteron.random> <1128126424.10237.7.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> <20051002102726.GB26677@opteron.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1128301486_12821P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 21:04:46 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1401 Lines: 40 --==_Exmh_1128301486_12821P Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Id: <28472.1128301486.1@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 12:27:26 +0200, Andrea Arcangeli said: > Ok great this explain things, so perhaps my last hack attempt of not > accounting the unstable pages in the "nr_reclaimable" isn't needed. > > What about Valids, were you using jfs too along with ext3? If a single > fs has a bug the loop can happen (it could happen in mainline too, > except it was less likely to be visible there). % zgrep -i jfs /proc/config.gz # CONFIG_JFS_FS is not set Sorry, this is an ext3-based system, no JFS here. Another (possibly unimportant) data point: I was seeing it with 256M of RAM, but after a recent upgrade to 768M, I'm not seeing it. Probably need to reboot with mem=256 to replicate now... --==_Exmh_1128301486_12821P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFDQIOucC3lWbTT17ARAoiIAJ9JfWt4mcAz6e1BRPqfvnhYnDsa1gCgt8ZM 4Z/NR4zOBWPPQIIHRXtA7zQ= =ICjM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1128301486_12821P-- - 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/