Re: 2.6.13-mm3

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--On Monday, September 12, 2005 18:06:17 -0400 Sonny Rao <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 09:03:12PM +0000, Danny ter Haar wrote:
>> Sonny Rao  <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I assume you're referring to allocating huge pages?  I'm not sure how
>> > one would test this other than allocating N huge pages, releasing,
>> > runing something intensive (like SDET), and then trying to allocate
>> > N huge pages again?  Or am I off base here?
>> 
>> Run a full-feed usenet server ? ;-)
>> I recommend INN ....
> 
> Are you using jumbo frames or anything like that?  I can probably
> replicate order > 0 allocation failures pretty easily using that, but
> I don't know if that's really the issue.

Jumbo frames, 8K kernel stacks, CIFS, and possibly NFS (though people dispute
that) tend to be the main culprits, in my experience.

M.

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