More data on 2.4.5 VM issues

This is 2.4.5 with Andrea Arcangeli's aa1 patch compiled with himem: Why is kswapd using so much CPU? If you reboot the machine and run the same user process kswapd CPU usage is almost 0% and none of the swap is used. This machine was upgraded from 2.2 and we did not have the luxury of

More data on 2.4.5 VM issues

This is 2.4.5 with Andrea Arcangeli's aa1 patch compiled with himem: Why is kswapd using so much CPU? If you reboot the machine and run the same user process kswapd CPU usage is almost 0% and none of the swap is used. This machine was upgraded from 2.2 and we did not have the luxury of

2.4.1ac3 vs 2.4.1ac8

Basic Machine configuration: SMP Supermicro board 2 gigabytes of ECC Registered ram Adaptec AIC-7892 eepro100 onboard nic The machine has been running as a database server with no MySQL crashes for several months and has run fine with kernels 2.2.18 and 2.4.1ac3. We have seen a HUGE

2.4.1ac3 vs 2.4.1ac8

Basic Machine configuration: SMP Supermicro board 2 gigabytes of ECC Registered ram Adaptec AIC-7892 eepro100 onboard nic The machine has been running as a database server with no MySQL crashes for several months and has run fine with kernels 2.2.18 and 2.4.1ac3. We have seen a HUGE

dst cache overflow

Hello, Recently we have been experiencing some problems with the network dying temporarily on a machine then magically coming back to life. This appears to happen more frequently when the machines are loaded down CPU wise and usually sustain over 3Mbits/sec of network traffic. This is happening

dst cache overflow

Hello, Recently we have been experiencing some problems with the network dying temporarily on a machine then magically coming back to life. This appears to happen more frequently when the machines are loaded down CPU wise and usually sustain over 3Mbits/sec of network traffic. This is happening