Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 19:29:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 19:29:46 -0400 Received: from [200.47.148.193] ([200.47.148.193]:60679 "EHLO core.domain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 19:29:29 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 14:29:59 -0300 From: martin sepulveda To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: load 1 at idle, 2.4.12-ac3 Message-Id: <20011016142959.75fd63b9.msepulveda@joydivision.com.ar> In-Reply-To: <20011018161607.D2467@mikef-linux.matchmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20011016135322.02ed0f97.martin@joydivision.com.ar> <20011016140041.2f26c95c.msepulveda@joydivision.com.ar> <20011018161607.D2467@mikef-linux.matchmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Operating-System: Linux for the whole world 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 what it was? a paused xmms plugin in development (xmms was stoped) talk about shame :) M. On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:16:07 -0700 Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:00:41PM -0300, martin sepulveda wrote: > > forget it! > > i've found what it was, and it is certainly *not* the kernel :) > > > > thanks anyway, and sorry > > > > What was it? A process stuck in D state? Something like dist.net or seti? > > Reminds me of recently when my X server (a couple days ago from > debian-unstable) cought a memory leak, and my system was swapping like > crazy. I thought it was something to do with the shmem problem I found a > while back, but I looked at /proc/meminfo and no errors with shmem. Finally > I checked top... > > Unfortunately, the OOM killer killed a few things, all except for my X > server that was causing the problem. > > Mike -- Talent does what it can, genius what it must. I do what I get paid to do. - 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/