On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Thomas Osterried wrote:

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> On the machine which has troubles, the bug occured within about 10 days
> During these days, the amount of dirty pages increased, up to 400MB.
> I have testet kernel 2.6.19, 2.6.20, 2.6.22.1 and 2.6.22.10 (with our con=
fig),
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> and even linux-2.6.20 from ubuntu-sever. They have all shown that behavio=
ur.

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> 10 days ago, i installed kernel 2.6.18.5 on this machine (with backported
> 3ware controller code). I'm quite sure that this kernel will now fixes ou=
r
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> severe stability problems on this production machine (currently:
> Dirty:  472 kB, nr_dirty 118).
> If so, it's the "lastest" kernel i found usable, after half of a year of =
pain.

Strange, my tests show that both 2.6.18(.8) and 2.6.19(.7) are OK and the=
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first wrong kernel is 2.6.20.

BTW: Could someone please look at this problem? I feel little ignored and=
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in my situation this is a critical regression.

Best regards,

 =09=09=09=09Krzysztof Ol=EAdzki