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From: Dieter =?iso-8859-15?q?N=FCtzel?= <Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de>
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To: Phil Oester <kernel@theoesters.com>
Subject: RE: 2.4.17 still croaks under heavy load
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 03:20:38 +0100
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Phil Oester worte:
>
> No RAID1 on disks.
>
> Here's /proc/meminfo within 1 minute of the box dying last night:
>
>         total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
> Mem:  1054371840 1044684800  9687040        0  7802880 834752512
> Swap: 535797760  7626752 528171008
> MemTotal:      1029660 kB
> MemFree:          9460 kB
> MemShared:           0 kB
> Buffers:          7620 kB
> Cached:         811872 kB
> SwapCached:       3316 kB
> Active:         231880 kB
> Inactive:       747344 kB
> HighTotal:      131072 kB
> HighFree:         1028 kB  <---------  See comment below
> LowTotal:       898588 kB
> LowFree:          8432 kB
> SwapTotal:      523240 kB
> SwapFree:       515792 kB
>
> The HighFree value was at 2044 for the prior hour.  It went to 1028
> within 1 minute of the box freezing.  Out of HighMem???
>
> Here's vmstat within 30 seconds of freezing:
>
>    procs                      memory    swap          io     system
> cpu
>  r  b  w   swpd   free   buff  cache  si  so    bi    bo   in    cs  us
> sy  id
>  1  0  0   7448   9536   7616 812092   0   0   932     2  235   577  50
> 1  49
>
> Seems VM related.

Hello Phil,

can you please try Andrea Arcangeli's 10_vm-21?
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.17rc2aa2/10_vm-21

I think we need more "pressure" to get these "fixes" into 2.4.18...

Regards,
	Dieter
-- 
Dieter N?tzel
Graduate Student, Computer Science

University of Hamburg
Department of Computer Science
@home: Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de

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