From: Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.20-rc1 - hang with processes stuck in D
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 23:39:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021109223921.GE10902@unthought.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <shslm437vi9.fsf@charged.uio.no>
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 07:43:10PM +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >>>>> " " == Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net> writes:
...
> > Everything using disk, both on NFS clients and locally running
> > processes, just pause. Five seconds after everything is like it
> > never happened.
>
> If you are using HIGHMEM, then the stock 2.4.20-rc1 has a known issue
> with an unbalanced kmap. Marcelo has already applied the following
> patch in the latest bitkeeper update.
No highmem. The box has 512 MB RAM.
I get some
eth1: TX underrun, threshold adjusted.
eth0: TX underrun, threshold adjusted.
messages in the syslog - probably around 100 messages or so, but they
stop appearing after a day of uptime or so. This is two bonded Intel
eepro100 cards, using the "Becker" driver (not the Intel one which I saw
was included). Those messages do not seem to be correlated with the
pauses at all though.
That's the *only* anomaly except for the pauses, that I see on the box.
The machine has run 2.4.20-rc1 for 5 days now, with an average load
probably around 3 or 4 (load 2 caused by two long-running CPU hogs, the
rest comes from disk I/O, mostly because it's NFS exporting a 147G fs).
Stable so far, but the "hickups" are weird.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-09 22:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-06 0:25 2.4.20-rc1 - hang with processes stuck in D Jeff Dike
2002-11-06 0:37 ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-06 3:08 ` Jeff Dike
2002-11-08 4:17 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2002-11-08 18:43 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-11-09 22:39 ` Jakob Oestergaard [this message]
2002-11-08 9:01 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2002-11-10 21:22 ` Jeff Dike
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