Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Feb 2003 18:49:40 +0100 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: filesystem access slowing system to a crawl |
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On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 05:42:34PM +0100, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote: > On Wednesday 05 February 2003 10:39, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > > > Running just "find /" (or ls -R or tar on a large directory) locally > > > slows the box down to absolute unresponsiveness - it takes minutes > > > to just run ps and kill the find process. During that time, kupdated > > > and kswapd gobble up all available CPU time. > > Could be that your "low memory" is filled up with inodes. This would > > only happen in these tests if you're using ext2, and there are a *lot* > > of directories. > > I've prepared a lineup of Andrea's VM patches at > > It would be useful if you could apply 10_inode-highmem-2.patch and > > report back. It applies to 2.4.19 as well, and should work OK there. > is there any reason why this (inode-highmem-2) has never been submitted for > inclusion into mainline yet?
Marcelo please include this:
http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.21pre4aa3/10_inode-highmem-2
other fixes should be included too but they don't apply cleanly yet unfortunately, I (or somebody else) should rediff them against mainline.
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