From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail137.messagelabs.com (mail137.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 098149000BD for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:18:51 -0400 (EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:18:18 -0400 From: Eric B Munson Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] V2: idle page tracking / working set estimation In-Reply-To: References: <1317170947-17074-1-git-send-email-walken@google.com> <20110929164319.GA3509@mgebm.net> Message-ID: <4186d5662b3fb21af1b45f8a335414d3@mgebm.net> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Michel Lespinasse Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Dave Hansen , Rik van Riel , Balbir Singh , Peter Zijlstra , Andrea Arcangeli , Johannes Weiner , KOSAKI Motohiro , Hugh Dickins , Michael Wolf On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:25:00 -0700, Michel Lespinasse wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Eric B Munson > wrote: >> I have been trying to test these patches since yesterday afternoon. >> A When my >> machine is idle, they behave fine. A I started looking at performance >> to make >> sure they were a big regression by testing kernel builds with the >> scanner >> disabled, and then enabled (set to 120 seconds). A The scanner >> disabled builds >> work fine, but with the scanner enabled the second time I build my >> kernel hangs >> my machine every time. A Unfortunately, I do not have any more >> information than >> that for you at the moment. A My next step is to try the same tests >> in qemu to >> see if I can get more state information when the kernel hangs. > > Could you please send me your .config file ? Also, did you apply the > patches on top of straight v3.0 and what is your machine like ? > > Thanks, My .config will come separately to you. I applied the patches to Linus' master branch as of yesterday. My machine is a single Xeon 5690 with 12G of ram (do you need more details than that?) Thanks, Eric -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org