From: Simon Kirby <sim@netnation.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Pauses in 2.5.44 (some kind of memory policy change?)
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 14:53:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021027225345.GA16431@netnation.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DBC5DC3.8641A66C@digeo.com>
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 01:42:27PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Adam J. Richter" wrote:
> >...
> > 3 0 2 0 9196 31420 178172 0 0 0 17152 6939 259 3 97 0
> > 1 0 1 0 2452 31420 185112 0 0 0 4056 4061 278 9 91 0
>
> Sorry, don't know.
>
> It's possible that your X server got paged out, but the system
> doesn't seem to be under any sort of stress, and there's not
> much page reclaim happening and no evidence of executable pagein.
>
> I'm assuming that everything is on local disks apart from that
> mail file. Really, you haven't told me much. What's all that
> `bo' activity there? What filesystems are in use?
The "bi" and "bo" are accidentally reversed in the kernel. :)
I can't believe nobody else has noticed this.
(I'm pretty sure I checked that vmstat was not reversing them. The
numbers in /proc/vmstat were backwards...)
Simon-
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-27 21:27 Pauses in 2.5.44 (some kind of memory policy change?) Adam J. Richter
2002-10-27 21:42 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-27 22:53 ` Simon Kirby [this message]
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2002-10-27 21:58 Adam J. Richter
2002-10-27 10:33 Adam J. Richter
2002-10-27 10:45 ` Andrew Morton
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