Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sun, 27 Apr 2003 07:41:51 -0700 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: Houston, I think we have a problem |
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> To reproduce this 100% of the time, simply compile virgin 2.5.68 > up/preempt, reduce your ram to 128mb, and using gcc-2.95.3 as to not > overload the vm, run a make -j30 bzImage in an ext3 partition on a P3/500 > single ide disk box. No, you don't really need to meet all of those > restrictions... you'll see the problem on a big hairy chested box as > well, just not as bad as I see it on my little box. The first symptom of > the problem you will notice is a complete lack of swap activity along > with highly improbable quantities of unused ram were all those hungry > cc1's getting regular CPU feedings.
Yes, that's why I don't use ext3 ;-) It's known broken, akpm is fixing it.
M.
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