From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 04:59:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 04:59:02 -0500 Received: from james.kalifornia.com ([208.179.0.2]:21855 "EHLO james.kalifornia.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 04:58:45 -0500 Message-ID: <3A54494D.C7DA0455@linux.com> Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 01:58:37 -0800 From: David Ford Organization: Blue Labs X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-prerelease i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LKML Subject: 2.4.0-release (and a few priors) stalls Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------94382961CC0941B74C2ABEF4" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------94382961CC0941B74C2ABEF4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Recently, about test 12 I believe, I started experiencing stalls. I believe it has to do with VM pressure but I'm not sure. What happens: 5-60 second instant dead stall, nothing at all happens. No sound/key/disk/anything activity, screen updates stop in the middle of an update. Until recently I was mistaking this as a lockup and rebooting (thank you reiserfs). Now I just wait it out. I'm away for holiday/vacation so I can't hookup kbd. :( Environment: normally swap is full -but- buffers can have any amount of free listed, sometimes well over 100 megs. After the stall resumes, everything starts right up and sings along fine. There aren't any kernel messages indicating something was funny. This is different from running out of normal pages, the system starts to thrash and slows considerably, almost unusable, but over a period of 10-20 seconds. If I add swap quickly, X won't get killed. (unfortunately, X seems to get killed 9/10 times because netscape took too long to die so the kernel kept killing). -d --------------94382961CC0941B74C2ABEF4 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="david.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for David Ford Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="david.vcf" begin:vcard n:Ford;David x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.blue-labs.org adr:;;;;;; version:2.1 email;internet:david@blue-labs.org title:Blue Labs Developer note;quoted-printable:GPG key: http://www.blue-labs.org/david@nifty.key=0D=0A x-mozilla-cpt:;9952 fn:David Ford end:vcard --------------94382961CC0941B74C2ABEF4-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/