Re: Stress testing 2.4.14-pre6

[Linus Torvalds]

In article <[e-mail]>,
Bob Matthews  <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Hi Linus,
>
>We've been doing some stress-testing on 2.4.14-pre6 and have encountered
>a couple of problems.  The platform is an 8xPIII with 8G RAM and 32G
>swap.  After running Cerberus for about 3 hours, the machine hung
>completely.  I was not able to switch VC's.

There is some race somewhere - I've found one interrupt race (that
actually seems to exist in the 2.2.x VM too, but is probably _much_
harder to trigger where an interrupt at _just_ the right time will
corrupt the per-process local page list.  That looks so unlikely that I
doubt that is it, but I'm looking for others (the irq one wasn't even a
SMP race - it's on UP too, surprise surprise). 

Working on it, in other words.

		Linus