From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 17:48:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 17:48:06 -0500 Received: from h24-87-160-169.vn.shawcable.net ([24.87.160.169]:29195 "EHLO oof.localnet") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 17:47:38 -0500 Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 14:53:46 -0800 From: Simon Kirby To: Andrew Morton Cc: "Adam J. Richter" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Pauses in 2.5.44 (some kind of memory policy change?) Message-ID: <20021027225345.GA16431@netnation.com> References: <200210272127.NAA03536@adam.yggdrasil.com> <3DBC5DC3.8641A66C@digeo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DBC5DC3.8641A66C@digeo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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- [ Simon Kirby ][ Network Operations ] [ sim@netnation.com ][ NetNation Communications ] [ Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer. ]