From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 03:57:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 03:57:23 -0400 Received: from packet.digeo.com ([12.110.80.53]:49867 "EHLO packet.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 03:57:21 -0400 Message-ID: <3D9D4B28.44625C91@digeo.com> Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 01:02:48 -0700 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.19-rc5 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: szonyi calin CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel 2.5.40 DMA and mm issues References: <20021004065223.24159.qmail@web40602.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Oct 2002 08:02:48.0617 (UTC) FILETIME=[6E0BA990:01C26B7C] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org szonyi calin wrote: > > ... > Here is /proc/meminfo after killing the updatedb: > MemTotal: 125576 kB > MemFree: 5540 kB > MemShared: 0 kB > Buffers: 21092 kB > Cached: 25124 kB > SwapCached: 1888 kB > Active: 15388 kB > Inactive: 33268 kB > HighTotal: 0 kB > HighFree: 0 kB > LowTotal: 125576 kB > LowFree: 5540 kB > SwapTotal: 248968 kB > SwapFree: 246892 kB > Dirty: 64 kB > Writeback: 0 kB > Mapped: 2512 kB > Slab: 69712 kB > Committed_AS: 3348 kB > PageTables: 192 kB > ReverseMaps: 2314 That looks reasonable for an updatedb run. > hda: DMA disabled This is probably why it's taking tons of system time.