From: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
To: grendel@caudium.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Very high load on P4 machines with 2.4.28
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:56:14 +0200
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On Tuesday 04 January 2005 21:56, Marek Habersack wrote:
> equipped with 2.6Ghz P4 CPUs, 1Gb of ram, 2-4gb of swap, the kernel config
> is attached.

It isn't...

> The machines have normal load averages hovering not higher than
> 7.0, depending on the time of the day etc. Two of the machines run 2.4.25,
> one 2.4.27 and they work fine. When booted with 2.4.28, though (compiled
> with Debian's gcc 2.3.5, with p3 or p4 CPU selected in the config), the load
> is climbing very fast and hovers around a value 3-4 times higher than with
> the older kernels. Booted back in the old kernel, the load comes to its
> usual level. The logs suggest nothing, no errors, nothing unusual is
> happening. 

You may try each of 2.4.28-pre{1,2,3} kernels with identical .config
and pinpoint when did it happen.
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vda

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