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From: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
Organization: Working Overloaded Linux Kernel
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>, t.baetzler@bringe.com
Subject: Re: filesystem access slowing system to a crawl
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 17:42:34 +0100
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On Wednesday 05 February 2003 10:39, Andrew Morton wrote:

Hi Andrew,

> > Running just "find /" (or ls -R or tar on a large directory) locally
> > slows the box down to absolute unresponsiveness - it takes minutes
> > to just run ps and kill the find process. During that time, kupdated
> > and kswapd gobble up all available CPU time.
> Could be that your "low memory" is filled up with inodes.  This would
> only happen in these tests if you're using ext2, and there are a *lot*
> of directories.
> I've prepared a lineup of Andrea's VM patches at
> It would be useful if you could apply 10_inode-highmem-2.patch and
> report back.  It applies to 2.4.19 as well, and should work OK there.
is there any reason why this (inode-highmem-2) has never been submitted for 
inclusion into mainline yet?

ciao, Marc
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