From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 05:39:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 05:39:09 -0500 Received: from packet.digeo.com ([12.110.80.53]:27866 "EHLO packet.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 05:39:09 -0500 Message-ID: <3DBBC3C0.C03D02A7@digeo.com> Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 02:45:20 -0800 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.5.42 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Adam J. Richter" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Pauses in 2.5.44 (some kind of memory policy change?) References: <200210271033.CAA02842@adam.yggdrasil.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Oct 2002 10:45:21.0245 (UTC) FILETIME=[F290D8D0:01C27DA5] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "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.