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Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 17:03:53 -0200 (BRST) From: Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: kswapd and system response On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > hi there, > > every so often, my system (2.4.13 smp) gets really sloooooow. a typical top > looks something like: > > PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND > 5 root 14 0 0 0 0 RW 99.9 0.0 7:52 kswapd > 7 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 1.9 0.0 0:04 kupdated > 2053 root 13 0 984 984 776 R 0.7 0.4 0:01 top > 2063 p 9 0 2080 2080 1292 S 0.3 0.9 0:00 vim > > kswapd is definitely not behaving correctly. > > the thing that brought it on this time was gtv (an mpeg viewer which uses > sdl) bailed on me. X "kind of" froze, so i killed it. but that's only the > cause this time around. last time, it happened between the time of going to > bed and waking up (ie- the system was pretty much idling from a user's pov). > > this has been happening with the 2.4.13 kernel every couple of days. > > i thought i'd post it to lkml to let someone know that there's a problem. > i'm not subscribed to the list, so if there's anything else i can do to help > diagnose what's going on next time it happens, please cc me. > > i feel like such a loser when i reboot. ;) i heard that 2.4.15 was just > released, so i'll try upgrading to that and see if it helps any. Don't use 2.4.15: it may corrupt your filesystem. I just released 2.4.16-pre1 which has a fix for this problem... Please try it and tell us if you still see the kswapd problems. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D PGP Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
