Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Jan 2000 00:47:27 -0500 (EST) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.14 feels slow and non-interactive. |
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Jorgen Skjaanes wrote:
>> My system is a K6-200 with 96 Megs of RAM. The kernels that I'm >> using are stock Official kernels from ftp.kernel.org with NO >> external patches and NO 3rd party hacks or kernel modules. Just >> a plain Jane kernel. >> >> Anyone else experience loss of interactivity and slowdowns on >> 2.2.14? > >Well, yes, I think so. The problem is I don't have a good "before" >situation to compare with. I installed a database service doing >some logging every 5 minutes and upgraded from 2.2.8-pre5 at the >same time. After that when the database is doing its stuff both >the database process and netscape gets stuck in D-state in wait_on_page >for many seconds while the disk (Adaptec AIC7xxx contr) is trashing >like mad. If I close netscape during this I can see the netscape >process staying in wait_on_page for up to 15 seconds before it exits. >The computer (a PPro-200, 160MB) is being so unresponsive that I've >ordered a new one. I sort of thought it was just being overloaded, >and maybe it is, but processes being stuck in D-state for such a long >time doesn't seem right. And since you asked... > >And it's not swap related. Or at least vmstat doesn't say so. Though >it is allways deep into swap. Right now when X is not running: > > total used free shared buffers cached >Mem: 160512 157532 2980 39880 3276 115928 >-/+ buffers/cache: 38328 122184 >Swap: 72288 26980 45308 > >( I know this is not a good and detailed report, but since I haven't seen > anyone else seeing this I still am not sure it's a bug. And I don't want > to flood the list with ps output and every litle detail if it isn't.)
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 98168832 95830016 2338816 14954496 28844032 37449728 Swap: 115077120 18284544 96792576
Another oddity is that I'm using the EXACT same apps now as I did a year ago, and a year ago I had 64M of RAM, and around 70M of swap and it would barely ever go into swap at all for any reason (2.2.[0-5]).. Now I have 96Mb RAM and 115Mb swap and it is in swap quite a bit, but not usually more than 20Mb or so.
The only processes using significant memory right now are:
1239 mharris 5 0 16604 10M 4860 S 0 0.5 11.5 4:17 netscape-com 831 root 0 0 9136 8912 800 S 0 0.0 9.2 2:45 X 721 mharris 0 0 3060 2988 1208 S 0 0.0 3.1 2:13 pine 871 mharris 0 0 2044 1148 852 S 0 0.0 1.1 0:02 kpanel 840 mharris 0 0 1796 1092 884 S 0 0.0 1.1 0:18 kbgndwm 4959 root 14 0 988 988 788 R 0 1.3 1.0 0:00 top 870 mharris 0 0 1172 984 240 S 0 0.0 1.0 0:00 krootwm 836 mharris 0 0 1620 780 600 S 0 0.0 0.8 0:03 kwm
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