This may not prove anything, but when I switched to reiserfs the trouble has not yet come back. Again this may not prove anything. In addition top showed the culprit to be the journal ling system I don't recall the package name now.
Roland Minden Telecom Coordinator Office (916) 286-8999 Fax (509) 275-2420 Cell (916) 769-4368 -----Original Message----- From: Peter Jay Salzman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 11:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Urgent - Problem in upgradation of RH 7.1 to RH 7. 2 !! begin Roland Minden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have experimented with ext3 and have had some strange troubles I had > originally thought were do to VM. Things like 99% CPU usage for no reason. this is a buggy implementation of the kernel virtual memory system. the "andrea vm". it was fixed in 2.4.16, and the patches have been applied to the 2.5.* series. > had this with Mandrake and SuSE both using ext3. IMHO I would stay away from > it on any production machine. *definitely* not ext3's fault. however, i agree here. i'm waiting myself until 2.5.2 or 2.5.3. just to get some of the really nasty/obvious bugs out of the way. pete _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
