Re: Errors in the VM - detailed (or is it Tux? or rmap? or those together...)

Roger Larsson (roger.larsson@norran.net)
Sat, 2 Feb 2002 16:31:59 +0100

On Saturdayen den 2 February 2002 16.22, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> > > Problem #2 is _the_ worst problem, as it makes the server more-or-less
> > > unusable
> >
> > Please send sysrq-t traces for such stuck processes. It's _impossible_
> > to guess whats going on from here, the crystal ball just isn't good
> > enough :-)
>
> Decoded sysrq+t is attached.
>
> I've found only the first 60 wget processes started from the remote
> machine is being serviced. After they are done, Tux hangs, using 100%
> system time, still open on port ## (80), but doesn't do anything.
>
> I don't understand anything...

I have reread the first mail in this series - I would say that Bug#2 is much
worse than Bug#1. This since Bug#1 is "only" a performance problem,
but Bug#2 is about correctness...

Are you 100% sure that tux works with rmap?

I would suggest testing the simplest possible case.
* Standard kernel
* concurrent dd:s

What can your problem be:
* something to do with the VM - but the problem is in several different VMs...
* something to do with read ahead? you got some patch suggestions -
please use them on a standard kernel, not rmap (for now...)

/RogerL

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Roger Larsson
Skellefteċ
Sweden
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