Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Sep 2006 19:22:34 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: what is the expected behaviour under extreme high load. |
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Hi!
> I am running a stress test on my SunFire 4600 (8x2core, > 64G) using the > mem_test available from > http://carpanta.dc.fi.udc.es/~quintela/memtest. I am > using SuSE > enterprise 9 SP3.
Try running w/o watchdog.
> I am wondering what is the expected behaviour of a > machine under > extreme VM stress. > When I stress the system to the limits, it practically > becomes > unresponsive. It runs for almost half an hour and then > it crashes > because of a CPU lockup.
> Any pointers from where I can start debugging this issue?
Try vanilla kernel, first...
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