Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Jeff Lightfoot
"Marco d'Itri" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I can confirm the bug which loses updates to the inn active file when it's unmapped is present again in 2.4.0-test12. It is also still in 2.4.0-test13-pre4 in case someone thought they had fixed it. -- Jeff Lightfoot --jeffml at pobox.com --

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 24, Alexander Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I put "cp active active.ok" in the rc file before shutting down the daemon and at the next boot the files are different, every time. Could you send me both files? BTW, which filesystem it is? I use ext2. The files are not corrupted, they

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Dec 24, Alexander Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I put "cp active active.ok" in the rc file before shutting down the daemon and at the next boot the files are different, every time. Could you send me both files? BTW, which filesystem it

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: Marco, would you mind changing the test in reclaim_page(), somewheer around line mm/vmscan.c:487 that says: Yeah, yeah, it's 7PM Christmas Eve over there, and you're in the middle of your Christmas dinner. You might feel that it's unreasonable of

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Dietmar Kling
Get back there in front of the computer NOW. Christmas can wait. Linus "the Grinch" Torvalds Hoo - Hoo - Hoo, you've been very naughty Linus. Asking people to work on Christmas evening. My god Linus, that's so naughty that I add it to my list... As soon as I'm

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Daniel Phillips
Linus Torvalds wrote: Hmm.. I wonder if such a dirty page might have been moved to the "inactive_clean" list some way? It shouldn't really be there, as the page had users, but if it gets on that list we'd not have tested the dirty bit. Marco, would you mind changing the test in

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Zlatko Calusic
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: Marco, would you mind changing the test in reclaim_page(), somewheer around line mm/vmscan.c:487 that says: Speaking of page_launder() I just stumbled upon two oopsen today on the UP build. Maybe it

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 24, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /* The page is dirty, or locked, move to inactive_dirty list. */ if (page-buffers || TryLockPage(page)) { ... and change the test to if (page-buffers || PageDirty(page) || TryLockPage(page)) { Done, no

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Dan Aloni
On 25 Dec 2000, Zlatko Calusic wrote: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: Marco, would you mind changing the test in reclaim_page(), somewheer around line mm/vmscan.c:487 that says: Speaking of page_launder() I just stumbled

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Augusto César Radtke
Marco d'Itri wrote: And I have another problem: I'm experiencing random hangs using X[1] with 2.4.0-test12. After a variable amount of time, some of the times I use X (I mostly use console) it just freezes hard (no caps lock activity). I'm not sure if this only happens while using X or it's

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