RE: 2.4.17 still croaks under heavy load

Dieter =?ISO-8859-15?q?N=FCtzel?= (Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de)
Sat, 29 Dec 2001 03:20:38 +0100


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 Nützel
Graduate Student, Computer Science

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

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