On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 12:27:26 +0200, Andrea Arcangeli said: > Ok great this explain things, so perhaps my last hack attempt of not > accounting the unstable pages in the "nr_reclaimable" isn't needed. > > What about Valids, were you using jfs too along with ext3? If a single > fs has a bug the loop can happen (it could happen in mainline too, > except it was less likely to be visible there). % zgrep -i jfs /proc/config.gz # CONFIG_JFS_FS is not set Sorry, this is an ext3-based system, no JFS here. Another (possibly unimportant) data point: I was seeing it with 256M of RAM, but after a recent upgrade to 768M, I'm not seeing it. Probably need to reboot with mem=256 to replicate now...
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