Re: 2.4.20, .text.lock.swap cpu usage? (ibm x440)

Brian Tinsley
2003-01-10T00:34:42Z

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>Either pollwait tables (invisible in 2.4 and 2.5), kernel stacks of
>threads (which don't get pae_pgd's and are hence invisible in 2.4
>and 2.5), or pagecache, with a much higher likelihood of pagecache.
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The "kernel stacks of threads" may have some bearing on my incarnation
of this problem. We have several heavily threaded Java applications
running at the time the live-locks occur. At our most problematic site,
one application has a bug that can cause hundreds of timer threads (I
mean like 800 or so!) to be "accidentally" created. This site is
scheduled for an upgrade either tonight or tomorrow, so I will leave the
system as it is and see if I can still cause the live-lock to manifest
itself after the upgrade.

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