Weird problem using latest kernel.

[Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be>]

I've been using 2.4.21-rc2, without patch, for a while without
problems.  Then I switched to 2.4.21-rc7 with the patch for rc6
found on http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/kern/

Using that, the first night something must have gone wrong using
updatedb, it was still running when I got back home that night,
which is ore than 12 hours after it starts.  You could hear the
hard disk going, the load was around 8, it was very unresponsive.
I just rebooted it.

The next day I had no problems, but the day after that I went to
see before I went to work and it was again still running.  This
time I started vmstat to have an idea of what's going on, and it
seems to be very heavily using the swap for some reason.

I killed updatedb and all it's children, but that didn't seem to
have helped, so I rebooted again.

After asking other people who run rc7, and searching list, nobody
else seems to have a problem, so I assumed it had to do something
with the lsm patch.  So I removed the patch and made a new
kernel.

I have no problems for 2 nights now with plain 2.4.21-rc7, didn't
have any problem with plain rc2 either, but things really don't
work very well with the lsm patched.


Kurt


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