> The dumps are large so they are located at http://stuph.org/VM/.
I can't seem to resolve this domain ...
> Here's the story. I boot and startx, I load xmms and netscape
> to eat away memory. When free buffers/cache falls below 7M the
> system stalls and the only recovery is sysrq-E or reboot. At
> the moment of stall the disk will grind continuously for about
> 25 to 30 minutes then go silent. At this point in time the only
> recovery is reboot, sysrq-E won't work.
> Kernel 2.4.1, with reiserfs, devfs, no patches applied.
Between 2.4.0 and 2.4.1, a few VM changes were made by
Linus and Marcelo. These are good changes, but they seem
to need a little bit of tuning in related code to get
system behaviour right again.
I'm working on these changes and should have a (few)
rebalancing patches out soon to fix the performance
problem.
About the system hanging completely, I wonder if it goes
away by pressing sysrq-S (sync all disks). If it does,
maybe Reiserfs was blocking all the pages in the inactive
list from being written because one of the active pages
(not a replacement candidate) needed to be written out
first? Or does the Reiserfs ->writepage() function handle
this?
regards,
Rik
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