From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264669AbTD0O3o (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 10:29:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264675AbTD0O3o (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 10:29:44 -0400 Received: from franka.aracnet.com ([216.99.193.44]:4070 "EHLO franka.aracnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264669AbTD0O3n (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 10:29:43 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 07:41:51 -0700 From: "Martin J. Bligh" To: Mike Galbraith , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org cc: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Houston, I think we have a problem Message-ID: <28750000.1051454510@[10.10.2.4]> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030427090009.01f89870@pop.gmx.net> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030427090009.01f89870@pop.gmx.net> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.2.1 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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.