Re: 2.6.17-rc5-mm1

From: David Miller
Date: Tue Jun 06 2006 - 00:36:21 EST


From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Date: 02 Jun 2006 10:52:05 +0200

> "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > All sounds very sensible ... but not sure why -mm would hit it all the
> > time, and never mainline ...
>
> You can use memeat.c to test the machine with other kernels.
> It tends to find such problems reliably. Let it run for some time
>
> http://www.firstfloor.org/~andi/memeat.c

Wouldn't it be more useful for this program to use LowTotal instead of
LowFree? It didn't grind my sparc64 machine much until I changed it
like that. :)

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