Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:13:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:13:09 -0500 Received: from [200.248.92.2] ([200.248.92.2]:26372 "EHLO inter.lojasrenner.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:12:58 -0500 Message-Id: <200110301609.OAA01973@inter.lojasrenner.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Andre Margis Organization: SAM Informatica Ltda To: rscuss@omniti.com Subject: Re: linux-2.4.13 high SWAP Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 13:10:12 -0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jesus@omniti.com In-Reply-To: <3BDE3174.7718D64B@omniti.com> In-Reply-To: <3BDE3174.7718D64B@omniti.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I test 2.4.9 , 2.4.10-ac7, 2.4.13 and all have this problem, I'm not using XFS, but reiserfs with LVM and 4 GB RAM. I detected if use tmpfs the kswapd eat my all CPU's, in 2.4.13 the system hang after a time. Now I'm testing 2.4.13-ac3 without tmpfs and he is very better than the others versions. But a nice test is disable the HIGHMEM support. I have a machine with 1GB RAM and the system is very fine and stable, running 2.4.10-ac7. Em Ter 30 Out 2001 02:49, Robert Scussel escreveu: > Just thought that I would add our experience. > > We have experienced the same kind of swap symptoms described, however we > have no mounted tmpfs, or ramfs partitions. We have, in fact, > experienced the same symptoms on the 2.4.2,2.4.5,2.4.7 and 2.4.12 > kernel, haven't yet tried the 2.4.13 kernel. The symptoms include hung > processes which can not be killed, system cannot right to disk, and > files accessed during this time are filled with binary zeros. As sync > does not work as well, the only resolution is to do a reboot -f -n. > > All systems are comprised of exclusively SGI XFS partitions, with dual > pentium II/III processors. > > Any insight would be helpful, > > Robert Scussel - 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/