Re: [patch] arca-vm-6, killed kswapd [Re: [patch] new-vm improvement , [Re: 2.2.0 Bug summary]]

Zlatko Calusic (Zlatko.Calusic@CARNet.hr)
05 Jan 1999 14:23:23 +0100


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Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@e-mind.com> writes:

> On 5 Jan 1999, Zlatko Calusic wrote:
>
> > At this point (output of Alt-SysRq-M), machine locked:
>
> Are you been able to continue using SysRq-K?

Erm... I continued with *&#&%$ Alt-SysRq-{S,U,B}.
That worked for me. :)

>
> Could you reproduce and press ALT-right+Scroll-Lock and tell me what the
> kernel was executing at that time...
>

I tried few times, but to no avail. Looks like subtle race, bad news
for you, unfortunately.

*BUT*, after I pressed ctrl-c against mmap-sync in one of the torture
tests, the program stuck in down_failed (loadav += 2). Few minutes
later machine got very unstable and I decided to reboot it. Go figure.

> Could you send me also the proggy for the shared-mmaps to allow me to
> reproduce?
>

Sure, just be careful. :)

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P.S. Apologies for too many jokes, I didn't sleep at all last night. ;)

-- 
Zlatko

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