On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > Is it highmem-related? Can you try it with mem=256M? > > > > Bad idea, the kernel crashes & burns when I use mem=256, I had to boot > > 2.6.20-rc5-6 single to get back into my machine, very nasty. Remember I > > use an onboard graphics controller that has 128MB of RAM allocated to it > > and I believe the ICH8 chipset also uses some memory, in any event mem=256 > > causes the machine to lockup before it can even get to the boot/init > > processes, the two leds on the keyboard were blinking, caps lock and > > scroll lock and I saw no console at all! > > Okay, so try mem=700M or disable CONFIG_HIGHMEM or something. > Pavel > -- > (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek > (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Looks like you may be onto something Pavel, has not invoked the OOM killer yet using mem=700M, I see the swap increasing and the speed of the copy is only 14-15MB/s, when mem= is off (giving me all memory w/preempt) I get 45-65MB/s. With append="mem=700M", seen below: top - 19:38:46 up 1 min, 3 users, load average: 1.24, 0.38, 0.13 Tasks: 172 total, 1 running, 171 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 10.6%us, 4.6%sy, 1.3%ni, 69.6%id, 13.9%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st Mem: 705512k total, 699268k used, 6244k free, 12k buffers Swap: 2200760k total, 18520k used, 2182240k free, 34968k cached (with mem=700M): procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 2 0 40276 7456 12 23184 0 0 13196 14904 1204 4756 1 2 50 47 0 2 40276 6156 12 24264 0 0 20096 18352 1293 6400 1 4 49 46 0 2 40276 6264 12 24264 0 0 15504 17836 1219 5202 0 2 50 48 0 2 40276 6144 12 24376 0 0 14348 14453 1190 4815 0 3 49 48 0 2 40276 6156 12 24504 0 0 11396 12724 1169 3724 1 2 50 48 0 1 40276 7532 12 23272 0 0 11412 13121 1183 4017 0 2 50 48 0 1 40276 7944 12 22644 0 0 19084 19144 1234 6548 0 4 50 46 Almost there, looks like its going to make it. -rw-r--r-- 1 user group 18630127104 2007-01-21 12:41 18gb -rw-r--r-- 1 user group 15399329792 2007-01-24 19:55 18gb.copy Hrmm, with preempt off it works and with preempt ON and mem=700M it works. I guess I will run with preempt off as I'd prefer to have the memory available-- and tolerate the large lag bursts w/ no preemption. Yup it worked. -rw-r--r-- 1 user group 18630127104 2007-01-21 12:41 18gb -rw-r--r-- 1 user group 18630127104 2007-01-21 12:41 18gb.copy Justin. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
