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 - 11:52:32 EST

> > Roy, did you notice the mail from Andrew Morton:
> > > heh. Yep, Roger finally nailed it, I think.
> > >
> > > Roy says the bug was fixed in rmap11c. Changelog says:
> > >
> > >
> > > rmap 11c:
> > > ...
> > > - elevator improvement (Andrew Morton)
> > >
> > > Which includes:
> > >
> > > - queue_nr_requests = 64;
> > > - if (total_ram > MB(32))
> > > - queue_nr_requests = 128;
> > > + queue_nr_requests = (total_ram >> 9) &
> > > ~15; /* One per half-megabyte */
> > > + if (queue_nr_requests < 32)
> > > + queue_nr_requests = 32;
> > > + if (queue_nr_requests > 1024)
> > > + queue_nr_requests = 1024;
> >
> > rmap11c changed the queue_nr_requests, that problem went away.
> > But another one showed its ugly head...
> >
> > Could you please try this part of rmap11c only? Or the very simple one
> > setting queue_nr_request to = 2048 for a test drive...
>
> u mean - on a 2.4.1[18](-pre.)? kernel?
>
> I'll try

er..

# grep queue_nr_requests /usr/src/packed/k/2.4.17-rmap-11c
# 

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Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, MCSE, MCNE, CLS, LCA

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