From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from digeo-nav01.digeo.com (digeo-nav01.digeo.com [192.168.1.233]) by packet.digeo.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id EAA25413 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 04:15:05 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 04:14:56 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.5.64-mm6 Message-Id: <20030314041456.7ee6b710.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <3E71C47F.1050205@aitel.hist.no> References: <20030313032615.7ca491d6.akpm@digeo.com> <3E71C47F.1050205@aitel.hist.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Helge Hafting Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Helge Hafting wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > This might cause weird thing to happen, especially on small-memory machines. > > Weird things happened. > mm1 (and mm2 on smp) have been running very fine for me. So I decided to > try mm6 on UP. The machine have 512M, and uses soft raid-1 on / The > rest is plain ide disk partitions, all using ext2. > > It booted fine. > I fired up openoffice, a 2x-3x speedup ought to be noticeable. > It didn't start, but got stuck with the annoying on-top-of-everything > splash screen showing. ps aux showed lpd in D state - perhaps > oo queries lpd. I also tried mozilla, and it got stuck in D state too. > Openoffice was only in sleep so I killed it. Mozilla was unkillable > as expected from the D state. The elevator bug. I'll make deadline the deefault until we get this sorted. Booting with "elevator=deadline" should be OK. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org