On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 14:16, Dave Jones wrote:> On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 02:06:50PM -0600, Steven Cole wrote:> > While running 2.5.25-dj2 and dbench with increasing numbers of clients,> > my test machine locked up with the following message:> > > > kernel BUG at dcache.c:361!> > There are some -dj specific hacks to dcache.c to convert to use> list_t types. Which from memory, I think William Lee Irwin did.> (wli, can you double check those just in case there's either an> obvious thinko, or a mismerge if you get time ?)> > Failing that, this could be something that also affects mainline> I think.

I didn't explicitly mention it, but I have successfully run recentkernels (2.5.2[4,5,6]) with and without the rmap patches with up to 64dbench clients with no problems observed. Also 2.4.19-rc[1,2] workswell. 2.5.25-dj2 is the only kernel which has had this dcache.c BUG.I didn't test 2.5.25-dj1.