From: thunder7@xs4all.nl
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [lkml]Re: reiserfs: still problems with tail conversion
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 17:24:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010224172448.A3125@middle.of.nowhere> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010223221856.A24959@arthur.ubicom.tudelft.nl> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0102241613140.1185-100000@sjoerd.sjoerdnet>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0102241613140.1185-100000@sjoerd.sjoerdnet>; from iafilius@xs4all.nl on Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 04:45:04PM +0100
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 04:45:04PM +0100, Arjan Filius wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried Erik's trigger-program.
>
> After some test i thing it's memory related, and it seems to match the
> other reports i saw on lkm.
> With my 384M ram i was not able te reproduce it.
> With "mem=32M" linux hang while starting a test oracle-db.
> However i tried (not repeated tests, and after a fresh reboot):
> ram=128M ; Triggered
> ram=138M ; Triggered
> ram=180M ; Triggered
> ram=192M ; NOT Triggered
> ram=250M ; NOT Triggered
> ram=256M ; NOT Triggered
>
> These results say that it memory dependent, and perhaps memory use
> dependent.
> With the mem=180M i did some additional tests:
>
> reisertest ; triggered
> free ; shows only 60M on cached data and 8192 files*8192
> bytes=64M
> /sbin/swapout 100M ; make sure enough cache to hold 64M data
> reisertest ; NOT Triggered !!!!
> While leaving the data, and executing reisertest in a new dir i'm
> triggring it again!
>
> So i think i can say, it's triggerable when the cache has no space to hold
> all the data (64M), but i didn't extensive tests.
>
I can't confirm that. This machine has 512 Mb memory:
free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 512940 144916 368024 0 12052 106552
-/+ buffers/cache: 26312 486628
Swap: 1992052 0 1992052
<after the failing test>
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 512940 144924 368016 0 12052 106552
-/+ buffers/cache: 26320 486620
Swap: 1992052 0 1992052
Jurriaan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-24 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-23 21:18 reiserfs: still problems with tail conversion Erik Mouw
2001-02-23 22:10 ` Chris Mason
2001-02-23 22:19 ` Erik Mouw
2001-02-24 2:52 ` Michal Gornisiewicz
2001-02-24 4:13 ` Meino Christian Cramer
2001-02-24 8:18 ` thunder7
2001-02-24 19:27 ` Ken Moffat
2001-02-24 20:53 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-25 0:41 ` Chris Mason
2001-02-25 4:21 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2001-02-25 5:41 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-02-25 13:53 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-25 16:37 ` Erik Mouw
2001-02-25 17:32 ` Erik Mouw
2001-02-26 2:40 ` [PATCH] " Chris Mason
2001-02-26 11:07 ` Erik Mouw
2001-02-26 15:37 ` Erik Mouw
2001-02-26 22:46 ` Ken Moffat
2001-02-25 20:32 ` Chris Mason
2001-02-24 0:34 ` Oliver Teuber
[not found] ` <01022318321302.01755@flash>
2001-02-24 8:40 ` John E. Adams
2001-02-24 15:45 ` Arjan Filius
2001-02-24 16:24 ` thunder7 [this message]
2001-02-24 17:28 ` Chris Mason
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