Hi Finn,
On Wed, 1 Apr 2015, Michael Schmitz wrote:
I've followed the vm stats while running gunzip -c on a large file. I
get an 'invalid compressed data' error at the very end of the gunzip
run, and the file md5sum does not match what I get when uncompressing
that file on another system with no error
Was that an aranym virtual machine or a physical one? If physical, can the
error be reproduced using a virtual one (given same RAM size, kernel etc)?
The gunzip error cannot be reproduced on any of my ARAnyM VMs. Might be
a RAM error or other hardware related problem. Same kernel but
configured slightly different (added 030 and 040 support, plus ARAnyM
support).
The general behaviour (gunzip eats up all free RAM, then kswapd spins
doing nothing very apparent, with no dirty pages to be flushed and
cached pages never released) remains the same. Though I've seen the
gunzip complete without kicking off kswapd on occasion (had set
dirty_background_ratio and dirty_ratio half the default for that).
And yes, dropping cached pages as Andreas suggested, does free up
significant (i.e. most of all) RAM and shuts up kswapd.
Michael
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