Re: objrmap and vmtruncate

Ingo Molnar (mingo@redhat.com)
Tue, 22 Apr 2003 13:07:57 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> ISTR it being something on the order of running 32 instances of top(1),
> one per cpu, and then trying to fork().

oh, have you run any of the /proc fixes floating around? It still has some
pretty bad (quadratic) stuff left in, and done under tasklist_lock
read-help - if any write_lock_irq() of the tasklist lock hits this code
then you get an NMI assert. Please try either Manfred's or mine.

Ingo

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