Re: [PATCH 0/9] V2: idle page tracking / working set estimation

From: Michel Lespinasse
Date: Thu Sep 29 2011 - 16:32:19 EST


On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Eric B Munson <emunson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have been trying to test these patches since yesterday afternoon.  When my
> machine is idle, they behave fine.  I started looking at performance to make
> sure they were a big regression by testing kernel builds with the scanner
> disabled, and then enabled (set to 120 seconds).  The scanner disabled builds
> work fine, but with the scanner enabled the second time I build my kernel hangs
> my machine every time.  Unfortunately, I do not have any more information than
> that for you at the moment.  My next step is to try the same tests in qemu to
> see if I can get more state information when the kernel hangs.

Could you please send me your .config file ? Also, did you apply the
patches on top of straight v3.0 and what is your machine like ?

Thanks,

--
Michel "Walken" Lespinasse
A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies.
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