Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Mar 2004 02:00:36 +0300 | From | Ivan Kokshaysky <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.4 on Alpha uninterruptible sleep of processes |
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On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 07:02:49PM +0100, Marc Giger wrote: > How long did you let your machine run?
$ uptime 01:40:40 up 3 days, 6:31, 4 users, load average: 25.23, 24.16, 23.73
It's with unpatched 2.6.4. Before that the machine was running 2.6.1-rc1 for 2 months.
> In my case, it has to run the whole night until it happens.
Perhaps there is a memory leak somewhere, and your systems just starts swapping.
> I don't know if it helps but I think the > first processes that are in uninterruptible sleep are apache and mysql. > Also, as you can see in my first e-mail (ps -aux output), the pdflush > and kswapd0 are in in uninterruptible sleep state.
Well, I can see something like that when I compile kernel with "make -j 15". The system starts swapping like crazy, most processes are in the D-state waiting for disk, but all goes back to normal after compilation is finished. What's wrong with it? :-)
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