Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 09:21:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 09:21:05 -0400 Received: from ns.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.10]:31749 "HELO heather.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 09:20:55 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 15:21:26 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: Allan Sandfeld Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.13pre3aa1 Message-Id: <20011016152126.01d58180.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <20011016110708.D2380@athlon.random> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 14:30:43 +0200 Allan Sandfeld wrote: > I was expecting a more serious bug-fix. I recently upgraded my kernel from > 2.4.11pre1 to 2.4.13-pre2aa1. Now anacron "kill"s the machine every morning > by starting updatedb. Basicly everything swaps out. If I don't touch the > mouse for 3 seconds, it will take 15 seconds to respond next time I touch it. > Switching between desktops in KDE, takes from 3 to 10 minutes, and updatedb > never seems to complete, I have had to kill it manually every time so far. I > had similar problems every morning with 2.4.9 although not as bad, but I > havent seen them before in 2.4.10 and later. > The problem is easily replicable, I just need to run updatedb. Would you like > some statistics and which? That would be really interesting. If you want to have a look: admin:/etc # cat /proc/meminfo total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 922664960 882900992 39763968 0 104587264 214876160 Swap: 271392768 0 271392768 MemTotal: 901040 kB MemFree: 38832 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 102136 kB Cached: 209840 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 40252 kB Inactive: 271724 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 901040 kB LowFree: 38832 kB SwapTotal: 265032 kB SwapFree: 265032 kB Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 6297280 5941616 355664 95% / /dev/sda2 31111 25873 3632 88% /boot /dev/hda1 20043416 19405616 637800 97% /p3 /dev/sda4 29245432 27529888 1715544 95% /p2 shmfs 450520 0 450520 0% /dev/shm admin:/ # time updatedb --localpaths="/ /p2 /p3" real 0m19.197s user 0m15.440s sys 0m5.260s admin:/etc # ls -l /var/lib/locatedb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5321293 Oct 16 15:13 /var/lib/locatedb admin:/etc # uname -r 2.4.13-pre2 3:14pm up 2 days, 18:15, 24 users, load average: 1.16, 1.10, 1.04 119 processes: 117 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU0 states: 54.5% user, 2.4% system, 53.0% nice, 42.4% idle CPU1 states: 45.0% user, 1.1% system, 45.1% nice, 53.1% idle Mem: 901040K av, 847480K used, 53560K free, 0K shrd, 90544K buff Swap: 265032K av, 0K used, 265032K free 206296K cached On my system I cannot see anything the like. Look at the execution time. Ok, I must admit: I do not use brain-dead K stuff (warning: this is a very personal opinion, don't flame me here :-). What does your setup look like? Have you ever tested without K? Regards, Stephan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/