Re: Pauses in 2.5.44 (some kind of memory policy change?)

Simon Kirby
2002-10-27T22:48:13Z

On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 01:42:27PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:

> "Adam J. Richter" wrote:
> >...
> > 3 0 2 0 9196 31420 178172 0 0 0 17152 6939 259 3 97 0
> > 1 0 1 0 2452 31420 185112 0 0 0 4056 4061 278 9 91 0
>
> Sorry, don't know.
>
> It's possible that your X server got paged out, but the system
> doesn't seem to be under any sort of stress, and there's not
> much page reclaim happening and no evidence of executable pagein.
>
> I'm assuming that everything is on local disks apart from that
> mail file. Really, you haven't told me much. What's all that
> `bo' activity there? What filesystems are in use?

The "bi" and "bo" are accidentally reversed in the kernel. :)
I can't believe nobody else has noticed this.

(I'm pretty sure I checked that vmstat was not reversing them. The
numbers in /proc/vmstat were backwards...)

Simon-

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