Re: [lc-devel] Compressed Cache v0.23pre6

[Rodrigo S. de C. <rc...@im...>]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 02:13:07PM +0200, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> again, testing pre6 of your patch :) ...

Thank you! :-) 

I want to make this version stable in order to release 0.23 final.

> Unfortunately i must say, pre6 isn't stable as pre4 was ... Following
> scenario:

I have already run some tests, but not exactly those mentioned below, like
interactive tests. I ran dbench, mmap, fillmem and many times kernel
compilation. Anyway, I will have a look at those tests to check if I can
reproduce the hang. Wait for a feedback.

> :-(( And yes, its reproduceable ... 

That's nice.

> comp_cache_size is 8192
> Kernel 2.4.18-wolk3.5rc1
> - with Preempt

Could you try reproducing without preempt? I don't know very well what sort of
changes the preempt patch makes, but I'd like to know if it still freezes
without it.

> Any other informations i can submit to help hunting that bug?

Did you compile with page cache support?

Best regards,
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Rodrigo S. de Castro <rc...@im...>