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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Brian Tinsley <btinsley@emageon.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.20, .text.lock.swap cpu usage? (ibm x440)
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 21:24:39 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030110052439.GL23814@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E1E50FB.4000301@emageon.com>

At some point in the past, I wrote:
>> Or perhaps the kernel version is not up-to-date. Please also provide
>> the precise kernel version (and included patches). And workload too.

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 10:50:03PM -0600, Brian Tinsley wrote:
> The kernel version is stock 2.4.20 with Chris Mason's data logging and 
> journal relocation patches for ReiserFS (neither of which are actually 
> in use for any mounted filesystems). It is compiled for 64GB highmem 
> support. And just to refresh, I have seen this exact behavior on stock 
> 2.4.19 and stock 2.4.17 (no patches on either of these) also compiled 
> with 64GB highmem support.

Okay, can you try with either 2.4.x-aa or 2.5.x-CURRENT?

I'm suspecting either bh problems or lowpte problems.

Also, could you monitor your load with the scripts I posted?


Thanks,
Bill

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-01-10  5:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-10  3:17 2.4.20, .text.lock.swap cpu usage? (ibm x440) Brian Tinsley
2003-01-10  3:29 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-01-10  3:42   ` Brian Tinsley
2003-01-10  3:54     ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-01-10  4:08       ` Brian Tinsley
2003-01-10  4:19         ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-01-10  4:50           ` Brian Tinsley
2003-01-10  5:17             ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-01-10  5:24             ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-01-10  5:45               ` Brian Tinsley
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-06 23:35 Chris Wood
2003-01-06 23:50 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-01-06 23:52 ` Andrew Morton
2003-01-09 17:17   ` Chris Wood
2003-01-09 20:18     ` Andrew Morton
2003-01-10  0:25       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-01-10  0:44         ` Brian Tinsley
2003-01-10  0:55           ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-01-10 20:42       ` Chris Wood
2003-01-09  2:20 ` James Cleverdon
2003-01-09  2:57 ` William Lee Irwin III

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