From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: Basic testing shows 2.3.99-pre9-3 bad, pre9-2 good References: From: "Quintela Carreira Juan J." In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds's message of "Sun, 21 May 2000 12:17:25 -0700 (PDT)" Date: 21 May 2000 21:32:04 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Rik van Riel , Lawrence Manning , Linux Kernel , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: >>>>> "linus" == Linus Torvalds writes: linus> On Sun, 21 May 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: >> On Sun, 21 May 2000, Lawrence Manning wrote: >> >> > That's my observation anyway. I did some dd and bonnie tests >> > and got abismal results :-( Machine unusable during dd write >> > etc. pre9-2 on the other hand is close to being as smooth as, >> > say, 2.3.51. What happened? ;) linus> What happened was really that I did a partial integration just to make it linus> easier to synchronize. I wanted to basically have pre9-2 + quintela's linus> patch, but I had too many emails to go through and too many changes of my linus> own in this area, so I made pre9-3 available so that others could help me linus> synchronize. linus> So on't despair, pre9-3 is definitely just a temporary mix of patches, and linus> is lacking the balancing that Quintela did. Hi Linus I am working in introducing my balancing changes in pre9-3, but I am having problems with it. Now my machines get deadlocked and I get a lot of Oopses. I am investigating on that. I get Oops indeed in the pre9-3 vanilla kernel. I am studying it to write a report of the situation. My SMP machine is new, It has passed 6 hours of memtest86 memory checker, but I don't know what to blame at the moment. I am compiling for my old UP machines to test the differences. Later, Juan. PD. Yes I am having deadlocks, Conectiva (http://www.conectiva.com.br/)and my department in the University (http://carpanta.dc.fi.udc.es/) have bought me an SMP machine. -- In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different -- Larry McVoy -- 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.eu.org/Linux-MM/