Re: Exaggerated swap usage

From: Nuno Monteiro (nuno@itsari.org)
Date: Sun Dec 01 2002 - 09:37:13 EST


On 01.12.02 10:36 Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 08:59:21AM +0100, Javier Marcet wrote:
>> * Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> [021130 19:47]:
>>
>> Hmm, the attachment...
>
> the attachment doesn't show anything interesting. Next time you can
> press SYSRQ+T and SYSRQ+P before dumping to floppy. BTW, you had
> kmsgdump probably because it was in the jam patches, it's not in my tree
> normally.
>

Hi,

I too experienced the lockup others described in this thread so I just
built a kernel with kmsgdump and I got a trace for you. This is
2.4.20-rc4 with -rc2aa1 applied plus kmsgdump. I tried with J.A.
Magallon's 02-revert-fast-pte-2 but it still locks up (and this trace
_does not_ include that patch) -- besides, Im not even using AGP, as all
these tests are conducted on an old P200 test box. Its very easy to
reproduce the lock here, I just fire up X (with gnome 1.4), open a couple
aterms, xmms playing an audio cd and open a web brower -- at this point
the system is still responding nicely, but as soon as I fire up xchat, it
locks up. It still responds to pings though, but I cant ssh in. At the
console, SysRQ-S and SysRQ-U dont seem to work, but all others do. Ah,
yes, the CD playing never stops, too. The ksymoopsified SysRQ-T & SysRQ-P
trace is attached, I hope it can help somehow.

        Nuno



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