From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263147AbUEGRQ1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 May 2004 13:16:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263688AbUEGRQ1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 May 2004 13:16:27 -0400 Received: from lc2-lfd165.law5.hotmail.com ([64.4.53.187]:3089 "EHLO hotmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263147AbUEGRQX (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 May 2004 13:16:23 -0400 X-Originating-IP: [67.71.31.26] X-Originating-Email: [wizhippo@hotmail.com] Message-ID: <409BC476.5010905@hotmail.com> Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 13:16:38 -0400 From: wizhippo User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: kswapd0 hangs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 May 2004 17:16:22.0357 (UTC) FILETIME=[04FAF050:01C43457] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Problem: When doing a backup kswapd0 always hangs. Does it both localy and remotely and via ssh System: Linux 2.6.5 vanilla Dual PIII 1.2GHz, 2GB Ram, RAID SCSI I can't get SysReq to do a dump, but I do have the ouput of top before it hangs. here is the command i'm using tar -vc -- /root /etc /home /usr/local /var /usr/portage/packages | bzip2 -c | split -b 500m - /mnt/backup/backup-$(date +%Y%m%d).tar.bz2- & top - 11:47:10 up 2:39, 2 users, load average: 6.83, 2.96, 1.46 Tasks: 90 total, 4 running, 86 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.5% us, 0.5% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 98.8% wa, 0.2% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 2072512k total, 1399844k used, 672668k free, 200k buffers Swap: 3919840k total, 28k used, 3919812k free, 296472k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 13 root 15 0 0 0 0 R 0.1 0.0 0:01.17 kswapd0 7606 root 17 0 8868 7784 1404 R 0.1 0.4 19:01.98 bzip2 1 root 15 0 1484 496 1336 S 0.0 0.0 0:07.20 init 2 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0 4 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1 5 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/1 6 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/0 nothing shows up in my logs. If you can tell me how to get more info to help let me know. I wish I had more for you.