From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932085AbWFFEhU (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jun 2006 00:37:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932086AbWFFEhU (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jun 2006 00:37:20 -0400 Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:8400 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932085AbWFFEhS (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jun 2006 00:37:18 -0400 Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 21:36:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20060605.213655.41876860.davem@davemloft.net> To: ak@suse.de Cc: mbligh@mbligh.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.17-rc5-mm1 From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <447E3846.1060302@shaw.ca> <447E7CF5.8020401@mbligh.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) 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 From: Andi Kleen Date: 02 Jun 2006 10:52:05 +0200 > "Martin J. Bligh" writes: > > > > All sounds very sensible ... but not sure why -mm would hit it all the > > time, and never mainline ... > > You can use memeat.c to test the machine with other kernels. > It tends to find such problems reliably. Let it run for some time > > http://www.firstfloor.org/~andi/memeat.c Wouldn't it be more useful for this program to use LowTotal instead of LowFree? It didn't grind my sparc64 machine much until I changed it like that. :)