On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Dipankar Sarma wrote: > On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 09:56:44AM +1000, Andrew Morton forwarded from Hugh: > > > > Subject: two 2.6.13-rc3-mm3 oddities > > > > One time my tmpfs-and-looped-tmpfs-kernel-builds collapsed with lots of > > VFS: file-max limit 49778 reached > > messages, which I imagine was a side-effect of the struct file RCU > > patches you've dropped from -rc4-mm1, perhaps a grace period problem. > > Hugh, could you please try this with the experimental patch below ?
I'll give it a go. But first I ought to try to reproduce the problem more easily - it happened after about two hours of a test which had run for two or more hours (before hitting the apparently unrelated problem) at least twice each on at least two machines. So until I can reproduce the problem more easily, it'll take some while to have confidence that your patch addresses it. Therefore worth a little effort at my end to cut it down (and if I can't cut it down, I may have to solve the odder locked page issue to get the original test to run long enough to hit the file-max problem with any likelihood). > Hugh, can you mail me the exact test you run ? I would like to run > it myself and see if I can reproduce it. It'll waste less of both our time if I at least try to reproduce it more quickly first. Hold on... Hugh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
