Re: [BUG] fatal hang untarring 90GB file, possibly writeback related.

[Mel Gorman]

On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 08:42:24AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> 1. High-order allocations? You machine is using i915 and RPC, something
>    neither of my test machine uses. i915 is potentially a source for
>    high-order allocations. I'm attaching a perl script. Please run it as
>    ./watch-highorder.pl --output /tmp/highorders.txt
>    while you are running tar. When kswapd is running for about 30
>    seconds, interrupt it with ctrl+c twice in quick succession and
>    post /tmp/highorders.txt
> 

Attached this time :/

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

Attachment: watch-highorder.pl
Description: Perl program