On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 09:43:08PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Six hours here of fsx-linux plus high memory pressure on SMP on 1k > blocksize ext3, mainline. Zero failures. It's unlikely that this testing > would pass, yet people running normal workloads are able to easily trigger > failures. I suspect we're looking in the wrong place.
I do not have a clue about memory management at all, but is it possible that you're testing on a box with too much memory? My box has only 256 MB, and I used to use mutt with a _huge_ inbox with mutt taking somewhat 150 MB. Add spamassassin and a reasonably busy mail server, and the box used to be like 150 MB in swap. I have tidied my inbox in the mean time and mutt's memory requirement has been reduced to somewhat 30 MB, which might be the cause that I don't see the issue that often any more. Greetings Marc, just trying to give input -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
