Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Sep 2005 15:47:49 -0700 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.13-mm3 |
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--On Monday, September 12, 2005 18:06:17 -0400 Sonny Rao <sonny@burdell.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 09:03:12PM +0000, Danny ter Haar wrote: >> Sonny Rao <sonny@burdell.org> wrote: >> > I assume you're referring to allocating huge pages? I'm not sure how >> > one would test this other than allocating N huge pages, releasing, >> > runing something intensive (like SDET), and then trying to allocate >> > N huge pages again? Or am I off base here? >> >> Run a full-feed usenet server ? ;-) >> I recommend INN .... > > Are you using jumbo frames or anything like that? I can probably > replicate order > 0 allocation failures pretty easily using that, but > I don't know if that's really the issue.
Jumbo frames, 8K kernel stacks, CIFS, and possibly NFS (though people dispute that) tend to be the main culprits, in my experience.
M.
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