Re: kernel debugging: seeing swap issues in 7.0

2008-05-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:12:17PM -0700, paul beard wrote: On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can try increasing the timeout by editing the relevant kernel source, but if it's failing to reply to the I/O after 30 seconds then something is

Re: kernel debugging: seeing swap issues in 7.0

2008-05-24 Thread paul beard
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 1:28 AM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no bug in gcc. Your system does not have enough memory to run the compilation job, so you are thrashing it severely. Try turning down the CFLAGS optimization level, or use a precompiled package from the FTP

Re: kernel debugging: seeing swap issues in 7.0

2008-05-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
paul beard wrote: On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 1:28 AM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no bug in gcc. Your system does not have enough memory to run the compilation job, so you are thrashing it severely. Try turning down the CFLAGS optimization level, or use a precompiled package

Re: kernel debugging: seeing swap issues in 7.0

2008-05-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 01:02:35PM -0700, paul beard wrote: I see a lot of these as my system grinds to a halt. It never crashes (I reboot it when it gets really boggy . . . May 23 11:41:13 stinky kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 49155, size: 4096 May 23

Re: kernel debugging: seeing swap issues in 7.0

2008-05-23 Thread paul beard
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can try increasing the timeout by editing the relevant kernel source, but if it's failing to reply to the I/O after 30 seconds then something is drastically overloaded on your system. Well, not much is running, and