From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Pauses in 2.5.44 (some kind of memory policy change?)
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 02:45:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DBBC3C0.C03D02A7@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200210271033.CAA02842@adam.yggdrasil.com
"Adam J. Richter" wrote:
>
> I run /usr/bin/mail to read my mail box file, which has about
> 24 megabytes (in 2300 messages, mostly spam). After this, about half
> of the time, my keyboard and mouse will intermittently stop responding
> for a second or two, maybe one or two times, and then everything
> seems to be OK. This happens *after* the mail spool has been read.
> This did not happen in previous kernels (well, maybe 2.5.43, I can't
> quite be sure about that one).
>
> The mail spool is on NFS, but I suspect the culprit might be
> some kind of memory balancing change in 2.5.44.
>
Clean pagecache usually doesn't cause much trouble...
Please send a `vmstat 1' trace which covers the episode.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-27 10:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-27 10:33 Pauses in 2.5.44 (some kind of memory policy change?) Adam J. Richter
2002-10-27 10:45 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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2002-10-27 21:27 Adam J. Richter
2002-10-27 21:42 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-27 22:53 ` Simon Kirby
2002-10-27 21:58 Adam J. Richter
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