--On Monday, May 16, 2005 14:40:57 -0700 Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 16 May 2005, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> 
>> --On Monday, May 16, 2005 14:25:04 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
>> 
>> > "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org> wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> PPC64 NUMA box. Maybe this is the same NUMA slab problem you were 
>> >> hitting before ...
>> > 
>> > Probably.  Christoph, this patch has crossed the grief threshold - I'll
>> > drop it.
>> 
>> OK, fair enough. Christoph, I am interested in seeing your patch work 
>> ... is something that's needed. If you want, I can help you offline 
>> with some testing on a variety of platforms.
> 
> Some description of the failure would be helpful. A boot log? .config?
> 
> Does the box have CONFIG_NUMA off and CONFIG_DISCONTIG on?

attatched boot log. Config file is here:

http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mbligh/config/abat/p570

M.