From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: "Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade" <gregory@castandcrew.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.20 instability on bigmem systems?
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 10:31:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <127170000.1047666678@flay> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200303131627.22572.gregory@castandcrew.com>
> The primary problem: Whenever any process (or set of processes) initiates
> intensive disk I/O, the system grinds to a halt, kswapd and kupdated
> consume upwards of 40% to 60% CPU each, and system load averages can jump
> upwards of 21.00. The problem can be replicated with a simple find command
> ("find / -print" seems to do it nicely).
Well known set of problems.
2.4 vm sucks on big machines. Run 2.5, 2.4-aa, or UL.
Yes, you can spend a few weeks beating your head against a brick wall
gathering various bugfixes if you like ... but you'll probably just end
up with a sore head ...
M.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-14 18:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-14 0:27 2.4.20 instability on bigmem systems? Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade
2003-03-14 0:42 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-03-14 1:45 ` Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade
2003-03-14 1:53 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-03-14 3:55 ` Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade
2003-03-14 4:13 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-03-14 17:31 ` Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade
2003-03-14 20:08 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-03-17 2:15 ` Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade
2003-03-17 2:26 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-03-17 4:59 ` Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade
2003-03-17 5:38 ` Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade
2003-03-14 18:31 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
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