as you point out, this doesn't really mean anything. the only reasonable statement we could make here is that reiserfs, which uses very complicated caching, aggravates the problem (but that doesn't mean it is the problem).
upgrade the kernel and i'll bet you don't see the problem again with reiserfs. (note- i wouldn't use reiserfs until a debugfs type tool was written for it.) pete begin Roland Minden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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. > -----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 -- 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
