On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > > On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > >After the oom-killing, please see if you can free up the ZONE_NORMAL memory > > >via a few `echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' commands. See if you can > > >work out what happened to the missing couple-of-hundred MB from > > >ZONE_NORMAL. > > > > > > > Running with PREEMPT OFF lets me copy the file!! The machine LAGS > > occasionally every 5-30-60 seconds or so VERY BADLY, talking 5-10 seconds of > > lag, but hey, it does not crash!! I will boot the older kernel with preempt > > on and see if I can get you that information you requested. > > It wouldn't be a bad idea to recompile the new kernel with preempt on > and get the info from there. > > It is usually best to be working with the most recent kernels. We can > always backport any important fixes if we need to. > > Thanks, > Nick > > -- > SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. > Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com - > 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 > In my tests for the most part I am using the latest kernels. 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
