RE: [Openmosix-devel] openmosix-2.4.24-1 release bad (ooops)

[Moshe B. <mo...@ql...>]

Aaron is taking care of applying the patch and then releasing 2.4.24-2. We
never re-release something that wasn't on CVS. 

CVS is the main reference for all releases. This is why -for now - everybody
is expected to commit her/his patch onto CVS. 

Moshe

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cristiano De Michele 
> [mailto:dem...@cr...] On Behalf Of Cristiano De Michele
> Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 8:16 AM
> To: Vincent Hanquez
> Cc: dem...@na...; openmosix-devel; Moshe Bar
> Subject: Re: [Openmosix-devel] openmosix-2.4.24-1 release bad (ooops)
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 13:16, Vincent Hanquez wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:40:09PM +0200, Cristiano De 
> Michele wrote:
> > > I've set up a cluster of 10 HP proliant 140 nodes (dual xeon 3.06 
> > > Ghz with broadcom gigaethernet) and I installed openmosix 
> from CVS.
> > > As I use unison (synchronizing tool) through MFS, I get kernel 
> > > oops...
> > > The only thing unison does is copying a huge amount of 
> data from on 
> > > HD to another one via openmosix files system (mfs).
> > > 
> > > I'm pretty much convinced that this oops is quite 
> reproducible hence 
> > > I hope I'll have soon time to investigate.
> > > Meanwhile I ask: can this problem be related to vmscan patch?
> > 
> > Without the oops that would be hard to tell ...
> > However kswapd oops appear when there's lot of pressure on memory.
> > 
> > you just have to apply this patch:
> > http://openmosix.snarc.org/files/patch/003-fix-kswap.patch
> I did some quick tests, essentially I transferred a big file 
> (1Gb) through mfs and now with your patch all seems to work.
> I think we should apply as soon as possible your patch to CVS 
> and re-release 2.4.24-1, because current 2.4.24 is unusable...
> patch applies quite cleanly, I can commit it if you can't, Moshe?
> 
> ciao C.
> 
> > and CVS will soon have it too.
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