I have gotten the same thing. For some reason, when trying to mount a
cdrom, "mount" just gets stuck. I can't kill the process, but for some
reason, even though it is not taking up any cpu, the load shoots up to 1.
The load goes up by 1 if I try running "mount" again.
I tried this with the three latest versions of mount, starting with the one
that's "required" for the 2.1 kernels (in the CHANGES file)
--Adam
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Linux SMP mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, November 23, 1998 10:14 AM
Subject: 2.1.129 oddity - high system load
:
:Hi all!
:
:I'm running 2.1.129 on a dual ppro here.
:
:Two hours ago I was running a job that consumed 700 MB of memory, along
:with another program consuming 30 MB. The machine has 256 MB memory, so
:it did a lot of swapping.
:
:Anyway, it's been af few hours ago since I stopped loading the machine. But
:top and xosview tells me, that I'm still having 100% CPU load from the
kernel.
:
:The top of my top reads:
:
: 2:45pm up 2 days, 20:12, 6 users, load average: 3.04, 2.73, 2.89
:98 processes: 94 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
:CPU states: 95.6% user, 98.2% system, 109.7% nice, 0.0% idle
:Mem: 257400K av, 89492K used, 167908K free, 24044K shrd, 42264K buff
:Swap: 911716K av, 52596K used, 859120K free 21628K cached
:
: PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
: 444 rc5 20 19 276 252 164 R N 0 69.3 0.0 3675m rc5des
: 443 rc5 19 19 276 252 164 R N 0 64.4 0.0 3663m rc5des
: 3851 jakob 8 0 720 720 544 R 0 30.0 0.2 0:08 top
: 3850 jakob 4 0 1092 1092 916 R 0 21.9 0.4 0:08 xosview
: 3127 root 0 0 26008 14M 6152 S 0 5.5 5.8 28:46 X
: ...
:
:There are no processes in the top that seems to cause any of the system
load.
:
:Furthermore, the machine is really crawling. It feels like something is
really
:loading it. But nothing is...
:
:What can I do to help track down this weirdness ?
:
:PS: I ran this kind of jobs two under 2.1.125, and didn't see the problem.
But I
:could just have been lucky ofcourse...
:
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