On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 04:27:22PM -0800, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
> The primary problem: Whenever any process (or set of processes) initiates
> intensive disk I/O, the system grinds to a halt, kswapd and kupdated
> consume upwards of 40% to 60% CPU each, and system load averages can jump
> upwards of 21.00. The problem can be replicated with a simple find command
> ("find / -print" seems to do it nicely).
> I have had two rather painful nights dealing with this (Monday and Tuesday
> nights). Luckily, I have a serial null-modem cable rigged up between the
> troubled server and another server, and was able to capture all the info
> from the Magic Sysrq commands that I could.
> Full details are at http://castandcrew.com/~gregory/lkmlstuff/burpr/2.4.20
Hmm, slabinfo would be very helpful, as well as meminfo.
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 04:27:22PM -0800, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
> I've included the kernel config, the kernel and initrd images, the system
> map file, output from "ps auxfww" and a couple screen scrapings from top,
> and captures from magic sysrq commands from both crashes.
> I had problems like this with 2.4.19, and was directed to apply a patch to
> inode.c, which appears to be part of a patch set for 2.4.19pre9aa2. I've
> archived it at:
> http://castandcrew.com/~gregory/lkmlstuff/burpr/2.4.19/patches/10_inode-highmem-2
> For 2.4.19, this solves _most_ of the stability issues, but I still have to
> work with the LVM people and possibly whomever is responsible for the VM in
> 2.4.19/2.4.20 to track down some kernel oopses (possibly a seperate
> problem.)
> I will happily provide whatever other information is needed, though my
> opportunities to test things on the machine in question is limited by the
> fact that it's a production server.
You might need bh stuff (memclass-related or something like it) if it's
general disk io. Can't be too sure until slabinfo + meminfo materialize.
-- wli
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