> > I just want to see whether your network + heavy IO load problem goes > > away with that one patch. > > Sorry, I should have been clearer in that mail: the high "load" value > isn't a problem - the intermittent panics are. What I meant to say was: > the panics usually occur when lots of disk & cpu IO is in progress (rsync > to an external but local disk over firewire). While doing this the load is > usally at 3-5, but that's "normal" and expected for a machine of that age. No, I understand your problem. What I meant above is to see whether you reproduce the crash caused by network + heavy IO :-) > But then the machine crashes with recent kernels. After setting the > cpu_partial files to 0 I tried to reproduce the same I/O pattern, *plus* a > bit more, to really stress the machine, so load went up to 6-7 and the > machine did not crash. So the load of 6-7 was expected and I'm glad that > the machine did not crash with that workaround. I don't know of the > implications of setting cpu_partial to 0 though. Right. Now we want to check if that patch from Christoph fixes cpu partial. > As soon as the build with Christoph's one-liner is done I'll test w/o > setting cpu_partial to 0 and see what it gives. Thanks ! Cheers, Ben. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>