On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 04:18:29AM -0600, Jon Nelson wrote: > > I have one CPU configured in the environment, 512MB of memory. > > I have not done any memory-constriction tests whatsoever. I've finally been able to reproduce it myself, on real hardware. SMP is not necessary to reproduce it, although having more than one CPU doesn't hurt. What I did need to do (on real hardware with 4 gigs of memory) was to turn off swap and pin enough memory so that free memory was around 200megs or so before the start of the test. (This is the natural amount of free memory that the system would try to reach, since 200 megs is about 5% of 4 gigs.) Then, during the test, free memory would drop to 50-70 megabytes, forcing writeback to run, and then I could trigger it about 1-2 times out of three. I'm guessing that when you used 512mb of memory, that was in effect a memory-constriction test, and if you were to push the memory down a little further, it might reproduce even more quickly. My next step is to try to reproduce this in a VM, and then I can start probing to see what might be going on. - Ted -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
