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From: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Zeno Davatz <zdavatz@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: kmemleak, cpu usage jump out of nowhere
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:31:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100714083112.GA4627@brouette> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinGoUml9PQ8w7flukqwF9V1ae-YafiDVQy6Q8gC@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Zeno Davatz <zdavatz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I got a new Intel core-8 i7 processor.

> > I am on kernel uname -a

> > Linux zenogentoo 2.6.35-rc5 #97 SMP Tue Jul 13 16:13:25 CEST 2010 i686
> > Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 960 @ 3.20GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

> > Sometimes in the middle of nowhere all of a sudden all of my 8-cores
> > are at 100% CPU usage and my machine really lags and hangs and is not
> > useable anymore. Some random process just grabs a bunch CPUs according
> > to htop.

* Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> [2010-07-14 11:05]:
> Why did you enable CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK? Memory leak scanning is
> likely the source of these pauses.

I am seeing the same problem with a Core i7 920 and 2.6.35-rc5, and I do
not have CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK enabled, so I think this is not related.

I do not see anything special in the logs, just the load becoming mad
and almost preventing ssh access. I've been seeing that since the first
2.6.35 rc I tested (-rc2 or -rc3, I don't remember) and I did not have
time to report it before but I was surprised nobody else did. No problem
with 2.6.34 and 2.6.34.1.

-- 
Damien

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-14  8:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-14  6:12 kmemleak, cpu usage jump out of nowhere Zeno Davatz
2010-07-14  8:05 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-07-14  8:27   ` Zeno Davatz
2010-07-14  9:47     ` Catalin Marinas
2010-07-14  9:55       ` Pekka Enberg
2010-07-14 10:00         ` Zeno Davatz
2010-07-15 14:58         ` Catalin Marinas
2010-07-15 15:15           ` Zeno Davatz
2010-07-15 15:54             ` Pekka Enberg
2010-07-15 16:28               ` Damien Wyart
2010-07-15 19:16                 ` Damien Wyart
2010-07-15 19:50                   ` Pekka Enberg
2010-07-15 20:00                     ` Damien Wyart
2010-07-15 20:38                       ` Zeno Davatz
2010-07-15 20:50                         ` Pekka Enberg
2010-07-15 20:57                           ` Zeno Davatz
2010-07-16  7:12                           ` Zeno Davatz
2010-07-16  7:29                           ` Zeno Davatz
2010-07-16  7:37                           ` Zeno Davatz
2010-07-16  7:50                             ` Pekka Enberg
2010-07-16  9:17                               ` Zeno Davatz
2010-07-16  9:32                                 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-07-16  9:42                                   ` Zeno Davatz
2010-07-16  9:47                                   ` Zeno Davatz
2010-07-16 18:27                                     ` Yinghai Lu
2010-07-16 20:29                                       ` Zeno Davatz
2010-07-16 20:59                                         ` Yinghai Lu
2010-07-17  8:46                                           ` Zeno Davatz
2010-07-15 20:52                       ` Pekka Enberg
2010-08-03  9:05                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-03  9:11                           ` Zeno Davatz
2010-08-03  9:15                             ` damien.wyart
2010-08-03  9:18                               ` Zeno Davatz
2010-08-20  9:32                               ` Damien Wyart
2010-08-20  9:40                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-14  8:31   ` Damien Wyart [this message]
2010-07-14  8:34     ` Zeno Davatz
2010-07-14  8:38       ` Pekka Enberg
2010-07-14  8:54         ` Zeno Davatz
2010-07-14  8:57           ` Pekka Enberg
2010-07-14  9:57 ` Catalin Marinas
2010-07-14 10:04   ` Zeno Davatz
2010-07-14 11:54     ` Catalin Marinas
2010-07-14 11:59       ` Zeno Davatz

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