From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 10 May 2001 18:51:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 10 May 2001 18:51:45 -0400 Received: from pc7.prs.nunet.net ([199.249.167.77]:39688 "HELO pc7.prs.nunet.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 10 May 2001 18:51:35 -0400 Message-ID: <20010510225133.3897.qmail@pc7.prs.nunet.net> From: "Rico Tudor" Subject: Re: 2.4.3 Kernel Freeze with highmem BUG at highmem.c:155 - CRASH To: kowalski@datrix.co.za Date: Thu, 10 May 101 17:51:33 -0500 (CDT) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <01051013425806.03256@webman> from "Marcin Kowalski" at May 10, 1 01:42:58 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > The symptons were an ever more sluggish machine over time, memory usage > looked pretty standard with the majority of memory assigned to cache... what > would happen is that at terminal it would go into semi-freeze states of about > 5-10 seconds (increasing with time), where no user interaction was possible. > By terminal I mean through a ssh remote terminal.... The load would also > occasionally just increase for no apparent reason to values of 7,8,9... I reported the same sluggishness problem on Feb 25. Capsule summary is 64GB option does not work. I was easily able to reproduce the sluggishness in 2.4.2, but need to test again for 2.4.4. See if your problem goes away with the 4GB option.