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

From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (roy@karlsbakk.net)
Date: Sat Feb 02 2002 - 10:38:51 EST

> 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?

Of course not. How can I be sure???

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

Won't work. Then all I get is (ref prob #1) good throughput until RAMx2
bytes is read from disk. Then it all falls down to ~1MB/s. See
http://karlsbakk.net/dev/kernel/vm-fsckup.txt for more details.

> 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...)

Then fix the problem rmap11c fixed. I first need that fixed before being
able to do any further testing!

roy 

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Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, MCSE, MCNE, CLS, LCA

Computers are like air conditioners.
They stop working when you open Windows.

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