Re: linux swap freeze STILL in 2.4.x

2001-02-26 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Marc Lehmann wrote: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 08:11:55AM +0100, Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anyway, it works fine here with virgin 2.4.2, so it seems unlikely it's > > a kernel problem. > > > 259 execve("/sbin/losetup", ["losetup", "/dev/loop0", "/dev/hd

Re: linux swap freeze STILL in 2.4.x

2001-02-26 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 08:11:55AM +0100, Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm.. I remember having this problem and it was a problem with strace. Well, I obviously strace'd it to find out why I get a memory fault without one (I would be happy if it worked without strace ;->) > Anyway,

Re: linux swap freeze STILL in 2.4.x

2001-02-25 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Marc Lehmann wrote: > Oh, and one last thing I forgot: loop devices. Since 2.4.1 (the first > version I used) through 2.4.2 and 2.4.2ac3 I only get: > > cerebro:~# strace -f -o x losetup -e rc6 /dev/loop0 /dev/hdd > Memory Fault > > And then no access to the loop device works

Re: linux swap freeze STILL in 2.4.x

2001-02-25 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Marc Lehmann wrote: > On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 05:58:32PM +0100, Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Usually I swapon ./swap some 512MB swapfile, but today I forgot it. When the > > > machine started to get sluggish I sent the process a -STOP signal. > > > > Signal

Re: linux swap freeze STILL in 2.4.x

2001-02-25 Thread Marc Lehmann
Oh, and one last thing I forgot: loop devices. Since 2.4.1 (the first version I used) through 2.4.2 and 2.4.2ac3 I only get: cerebro:~# strace -f -o x losetup -e rc6 /dev/loop0 /dev/hdd Memory Fault And then no access to the loop device works anymore (clearly this is after the 2.4.0.something cr

Re: linux swap freeze STILL in 2.4.x

2001-02-25 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 05:58:32PM +0100, Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Signal delivery during oomest does not work (last time I tested). > Andrea fixed this once.. long time ~problem. Hmm, here is soemthing that is new: Just now, the machine gets VERY very sluggish and swaps:

Re: linux swap freeze STILL in 2.4.x

2001-02-25 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 05:58:32PM +0100, Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Usually I swapon ./swap some 512MB swapfile, but today I forgot it. When the > > machine started to get sluggish I sent the process a -STOP signal. > > Signal delivery during oomest does not work (last time I

Re: linux swap freeze STILL in 2.4.x

2001-02-25 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Marc Lehmann wrote: > It seems linux-2.4 still freezes on out-of-memory situations: > Usually I swapon ./swap some 512MB swapfile, but today I forgot it. When the > machine started to get sluggish I sent the process a -STOP signal. Signal delivery during oomest does not w

linux swap freeze STILL in 2.4.x

2001-02-25 Thread Marc Lehmann
It seems linux-2.4 still freezes on out-of-memory situations: I was using 2.4.2-ac3 SMP and had a fairly large background job that takes hundreds of megabytes of memory, much more than I have: Mem:255296 81836 173460 0 10324 30608 Swap:2 0