Re: 2.5.64-mm2->4 hangs on contest

Mike Galbraith (efault@gmx.de)
Thu, 13 Mar 2003 04:39:11 +0100


At 12:22 PM 3/13/2003 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
>On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 23:30, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > At 10:19 PM 3/12/2003 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > >On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 21:37, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > > >Is this in addition to your previous errr hack or instead of?
> > > >
> > > > Instead of. The buttugly patch destroyed interactivity. This one
> > > > cures starvation, and interactivity is really nice.
> > >
> > >Ok that fixes the "getting stuck in process load" but it still hangs on
> > >contest. I'll just have to give mm5 a go and see if whatever problem that
> > > was went away in the mean time.
> >
> > (%$&#!!)
>
>No need to curse. Turns out this is an unrelated bug with the anticipatory
>scheduler which akpm is onto. Your fix worked fine for the scheduler based
>hang.

Nope (drat), not quite. I fixed the parse Mem: booboo, and see occasional
hangs doing complete irman test runs. The process load works fine, but the
other two loads will hang once in a while.

> > Oh well, Ingo probably has it nailed already anyway.
>
> > (but meanwhile, where's your website again?)
>
>contest?
>http://contest.kolivas.org

Yeah, thanks.

-Mike

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