From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Steven Roussey <sroussey@network54.com>
Cc: robm@fastmail.fm, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Strange load spikes on 2.4.19 kernel
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 15:09:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DF7C5B2.D9E0249C@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 000b01c2a168$37e747d0$026fa8c0@wehohome
Steven Roussey wrote:
>
> Was there ever a solution to this issue?
No. It wasn't clear what was going on.
> Is it kernel or ext3 based issue?
One of those.
> Is there a workaround?
Tried mounting all filesystems `-o noatime'?
> I've spent two months looking for a source and
> solution to this issue. It is pressing for me since all our users get locked
> out at the height of the spike. Ours is a webserver.
>
Is there much disk write activity? What journalling mode
are you using?
The output of `ps aux' during a stall would be interesting,
as would the `vmstat 1' ouptut.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-11 23:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-11 22:54 Strange load spikes on 2.4.19 kernel Steven Roussey
2002-12-11 23:09 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-12-11 23:54 ` Steven Roussey
2002-12-12 0:13 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-12 0:31 ` Steven Roussey
[not found] <113001c27282$93955eb0$1900a8c0@lifebook.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <000001c27286$6ab6bc60$7443f4d1@joe.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <20021013.000127.43007739.davem@redhat.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-10-13 7:24 ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-13 7:21 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-13 11:47 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-10-13 18:29 ` Andrew Morton
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0210130202070.17395-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2002-10-13 6:34 ` Rob Mueller
2002-10-13 7:01 ` Joseph D. Wagner
2002-10-13 7:01 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-13 7:49 ` Joseph D. Wagner
2002-10-13 7:50 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-13 8:16 ` Joseph D. Wagner
2002-10-13 8:13 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-13 8:40 ` Joseph D. Wagner
2002-10-13 8:45 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-13 8:48 ` Mike Galbraith
2002-10-13 8:48 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-13 8:51 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-10-13 10:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-13 19:42 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-16 21:00 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-10-13 8:59 ` Anton Blanchard
2002-10-13 9:26 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-10-13 12:31 ` Marius Gedminas
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0210121605490.16179-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2002-10-13 0:49 ` Rob Mueller
[not found] <001401c2719b$9d45c4a0$53241c43@joe>
2002-10-12 6:54 ` Rob Mueller
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-12 3:13 Joseph D. Wagner
2002-10-12 3:10 Joseph D. Wagner
2002-10-12 1:12 Rob Mueller
2002-10-12 1:25 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-12 2:25 ` Rob Mueller
2002-10-12 3:07 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-12 6:37 ` Rob Mueller
2002-10-12 6:44 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-12 6:52 ` Rob Mueller
2002-10-12 7:00 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-13 6:14 ` Rob Mueller
2002-10-13 7:27 ` Simon Kirby
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