Re: scheduler went mad?

[Josh McKinney <forming@home.com>]

I had the almost exact same thing happen to me just yesterday, I started up
xcdroast, and cdda2wav and kswapd went crazy, backed out of X and all was 
well, and still is.

Same kernel as you too.

On approximately Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 04:24:48PM +0200, Priit Randla wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
>    
> 
>    Yesterday i tried to start cdda2wav but somehow it didn't do
> anything.
>   It didn't die to kill -9 too. Machine was slow but usable. 
>   vmstat 10 output:
> 
>   procs                      memory    swap          io    
> system         cpu
>  r  b  w   swpd   free   buff  cache  si  so    bi    bo   in    cs  us 
> sy  id
>  2  0  1   2972  40916    108  18292   0   0     0     0  121 12735   0
> 100   0
>  2  0  1   2972  40492    108  18292   0   0     0     0  109 12740   1 
> 99   0
>  2  0  1   2972  40492    108  18292   0   0     0     0  103 12996   0
> 100   0
>  3  0  0   2972  40492    108  18292   0   0     0     0  102 12932   0
> 100   0
>  3  0  1   2972  40492    108  18292   0   0     0     0  131 12652   1 
> 99   0
>  2  0  0   2972  40496    108  18292   0   0     0     0  142 12562   1 
> 99   0
>  2  0  0   2972  40500    108  18292   0   0     0     0  120 12684   0
> 100   0
>  2  0  1   2972  40496    108  18292   0   0     0     0  140 12480   1 
> 99   0
>  2  0  0   2972  39952    108  18292   0   0     0     0  160 11445   7 
> 93   0
>  3  0  0   2972  39952    108  18292   0   0     0     0  178 12295   2 
> 98   0
>  2  0  0   2972  39956    108  18292   0   0     0     0  214 11958   2 
> 98   0
>  3  0  1   2972  39952    108  18292   0   0     0     0  138 12579   1 
> 99   0
> 
> cs field is absolutely ridiculous for my machine.																							
> 
> ps showed cdda2wav & kswapd eating all of processor time. When i tried
> to close
> netscape, it hang too and joined cdda2wav and kswapd:
> 
>   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME
> COMMAND
>  9990 priitr    17   0 42380  41M  9928 R       0 32.5 33.4  21:47
> netscape-commun
>     3 root      17   0     0    0     0 SW      0 32.3  0.0  11:12
> kswapd
> 10538 priitr    16   0    84    8     0 R       0 32.3  0.0  11:09
> cdda2wav
>     5 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW      0  1.5  0.0   0:19
> bdflush
> 10616 priitr    13   0   856  856   668 R       0  0.7  0.6   0:00 top
>   657 root       9   0 21160  20M  1668 S       0  0.1 16.7  29:36 X
> 
> 
> I couldn't leave X and had to kill it. After that, both netscape and
> cdda2wav were
> gone and everything looks normal since then.
> I'm running 2.4.3ac3 right now.
> 
> dmesg:
> -
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