Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Aug 1999 13:40:35 +0200 | From | Jakob Borg <> | Subject | [me too] Re: 2.3.12 - klogd 100% CPU && Bogus Buffer memory count |
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On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 04:03:08AM +0930, Mofeed Shahin wrote: > > G'day all, > > First off I will explain what I was doing that caused the problem. > I was copying a whole CD to the hard-drive. They are both scsi AIC7xxx. > > While I was copying I noticed Xosview not looking too healthy so I ran top > and noticed that the amount of buffer memory was obviously wrong. > > here is the vmstat output : > > :vmstat > procs memory swap io system cpu > r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id > 1 0 0 744 2908 4193304 205452 0 0 2 4 52 14 47 0 53 > ^^^^^^^ > Notice the 4.1 GIG of buffer memory. > > Also half way through the copy klogd started using up all the CPU time on > one of the processors. > Even after the copy had finished klogd was still using up large amounts of > CPU (100%). > > The machine is Dual PIII 450 compiled as SMP with AIC 7xxx SCSI driver. > With 256 meg ram.
I've had the exact same problem on 2.2.10 SMP with CD on AIC7xxx adapter and IDE disks. The machine is a Dual PII 450 with 256 meg RAM.
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