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From: <tcm@nac.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Possible freezing bug located after ac13
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 22:29:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010623222954.A9031@debian> (raw)

I've recently been going slightly nuts with the fact ac15, 16, and 17
all like deadlocking/slowing to a crawl for seconds/minutes on my K6-III
with 64MB of ram and a swap space of 128MB...

Recently I noticed something VERY odd, I'd been keeping an eye on
gkrellm while I was doing stupid things to produce the problem (a du
as root in X of / generally would always make it pop up) ... And swap
was doing I/O at the time *JUST* before when I'd either deadlock or slow
down to a crawl, and if it recovered, swap would do more I/O...

So. I tried unmounting all swap, and suddenly everything worked fine,
although I couldn't exactly do everythign I wanted of course.

I regression tested this, ac 16,15 and even 14 do this. ac 13 does *not*
- IMHO I think the dead swap patches introduced into 14 may be related
to the problem.

Just my two cents.

Tim

             reply	other threads:[~2001-06-24  2:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-24  2:29 tcm [this message]
2001-06-24  2:54 ` Possible freezing bug located after ac13 Rik van Riel
2001-06-26 22:38 ` Swap error message I've seen in 2.4.5-ac17 tcm
2001-06-28  0:33 ` Freezing bug in all kernels greater than 2.4.5-ac13 *AND* 2.4.6-pre2 tcm
2001-06-27 23:11   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-06-27 23:25     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-07-01  5:08   ` tcm

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