Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:20:12 -0400 | From | Kent Borg <> | Subject | Something Broken in 2.4.9-ac15 |
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On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 08:29:44PM -0400, Michael Rothwell wrote: > my swap load is at zero, which is probably where it should be (2.4.7 > would regularly be using 256MB of swap with the same applications > running).
That got my attention. I think something is broken here and you are into swap but the reporting is quite wrong.
I have 192 MB in my laptop running 2.4.9-ac15 w/preemption patch turned on. I fired up a couple Mozilla windows, a couple Netscape windows, Staroffice, a couple acroread windows, a couple emacs windows, Abiword, and I forget what all. Still no swap usage reported. I fired up a second X session and my computer came to a crawl as it tried to run all those apps again. The disk was grinding away--it felt just like a swapping death and yet xosview and top both reported 0 swap usage. I don't believe it was so.
I killed most everything, and now the computer feels like it is back to normal, but xosview thinks the CPU is pinned at 100% SYS when nothing is going on. I drag a window around and I get plenty of USR and even some FREE, but let go and it goes back to 100%.
Something is broken here, me thinks.
-kb, the Kent who might go back to 2.4.9-ac12 later today and ry it again. - 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/
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