Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:43:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:43:34 -0500 Received: from longsword.omniti.com ([216.0.51.134]:38666 "EHLO longsword.omniti.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:43:22 -0500 Message-ID: <3BDECBDD.DEE796EE@omniti.com> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:48:45 -0500 From: Robert Scussel Reply-To: rscuss@omniti.com Organization: OmniTI, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pablo Ninja CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: linux-2.4.13 high SWAP In-Reply-To: <3BDE3174.7718D64B@omniti.com> <20011030082806.14e60268.pablo.ninja@uol.com.br> 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 Pablo Ninja wrote: > > Hi Robert, > > I'm just a regular user of sgi xfs on my desktop and I noted It eats up all memory (maybe cos it caches too much). Don't know if it matters but have you ever tried to umount/mount these partitions ? > Yes, I have tried to unmount the partition, however, it is impossible once the machine gets into this state. One thing that I have noticed is that when the load starts to increase, a manual sync, although it takes a long time, appears to keep off an immediate hang of the system. Once the load gets above 25 however, the machines spiral out of control. Robert > []'s > Pablo > > On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 23:49:56 -0500 > Robert Scussel wrote: > > > 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 > > -- > > Robert Scussel > > 1024D/BAF70959/0036 B19E 86CE 181D 0912 5FCC 92D8 1EA1 BAF7 0959 > > - > > 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/ > > > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Pablo Borges pablo.borges@uol.com.br > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ____ Tecnologia UOL > / \ Debian: > | =_/ The 100% suck free linux distro. > \ > \ SETI is lame. http://www.distributed.net > Dnetc is XNUG! > > - > 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/ -- Robert Scussel 1024D/BAF70959/0036 B19E 86CE 181D 0912 5FCC 92D8 1EA1 BAF7 0959 - 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/