From: Paul Boley <pboley@home.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: severe slowdown with 2.4 series w/heavy disk access
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 00:17:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C295D5C.50EE365D@home.com> (raw)
I have been having this problem with the whole 2.4 kernel series.. Under
heavy disk access, the entire system will slow down and almost all of my
memory, save 5 megs, gets used up, never to return. I am currently
running 2.4.17 on a machine with 416 megs of ram, Duron 750, not
overclocked. Cpu temp does not exceed 107 deg F ever, so I don't think
its a heat issue. I have an MSI K7T Pro2 motherboard, using the KT133
chipset. Anyway, the following is how I can duplicate the problem, in
about 5 minutes. I only used mozilla for this because I was working
with it when I decided to isolate the problem. Also note this happens
more than just with tar, and sometimes it happens for no apparent reason
at all.
*** free and ps -ax, before the slowdown:
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 417472 30104 387368 0 1264
21748
-/+ buffers/cache: 7092 410380
Swap: 136544 0 136544
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
1 ? S 0:04 init
2 ? SW 0:00 [keventd]
3 ? SWN 0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
4 ? SW 0:00 [kswapd]
5 ? SW 0:00 [bdflush]
6 ? SW 0:00 [kupdated]
63 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/syslogd
66 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/klogd -c 3
78 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd -b 15 -l 1
90 tty1 S 0:00 -bash
91 tty2 S 0:00 -bash
92 tty3 S 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
93 tty4 S 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
94 tty5 S 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
95 tty6 S 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux
192 tty2 S 0:00 top
200 tty1 R 0:00 ps -ax
*** I then rm -rf'd mozilla, and tar -zxvf mozilla-source-0.9.7.tar.gz,
*** and immediately after, ran free and ps -ax again. The system
started
*** losing memory and slowing down about 10 seconds into the
*** decompression.
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 417472 412192 5280 0 20632
315680
-/+ buffers/cache: 75880 341592
Swap: 136544 0 136544
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
1 ? S 0:04 init
2 ? SW 0:00 [keventd]
3 ? SWN 0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
4 ? SW 0:00 [kswapd]
5 ? SW 0:00 [bdflush]
6 ? SW 0:02 [kupdated]
63 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/syslogd
66 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/klogd -c 3
78 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd -b 15 -l 1
90 tty1 S 0:00 -bash
91 tty2 S 0:00 -bash
92 tty3 S 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
93 tty4 S 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
94 tty5 S 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
95 tty6 S 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux
192 tty2 S 0:01 top
207 tty1 R 0:00 ps -ax
next reply other threads:[~2001-12-26 5:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-26 5:17 Paul Boley [this message]
[not found] ` <01122609375800.01845@manta>
2001-12-25 10:37 ` severe slowdown with 2.4 series w/heavy disk access Paul Boley
2001-12-26 5:51 ` Idrigal (Eric Rautenkranz)
2001-12-26 14:58 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-25 10:33 ` Paul Boley
2001-12-26 16:46 ` Calin A. Culianu
2001-12-26 17:36 ` Alan Cox
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2001-12-26 19:25 Guillaume Morin
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