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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Gerald Krafft <gkrafft@porism.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hanging in wait_for_tcp_memory
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:42:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1079008948.4446.3.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40505CA0.6080702@porism.com>

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On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 13:33, Gerald Krafft wrote:
> I have some database processes (Interbase V6) that occasionally seem to 
> hang. Using ps or top I found that they are waiting in 
> wait_for_tcp_memory. What exactly does wait_for_tcp_memory do and under 
> which circumstances does this function block?
> I'm using Red Hat Linux 7.2, kernel version 2.4.7-10smp on a dual 
> processor machine. Were there any known problems with 
> wait_for_tcp_memory in that kernel version that might have been fixed in 
> later versions

2.4.7-10 had a really really bad vm, so we replaced it with another
kernel the day of 7.2 release (which also was needed for security
fixes). Sounds like you need to apply a bunch of (security) errata to
get your system performing better...

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-11 12:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-11 12:33 hanging in wait_for_tcp_memory Gerald Krafft
2004-03-11 12:42 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2004-03-11 14:53   ` Gerald Krafft

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