Re: RH 8; intermittend very high load

From: Sander (mail04_at_sanderscorner.com)
Date: 04/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 19:14:21 +0200

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 19:48:33 -0500, Tommy Reynolds
<TommyReynolds@yahoo.com> wrote:

...
> Those two "/proc" entries are good places to look for memory
> thrashing and/or swap issues.

I'll check those next time. Happens about twice a month, at irregular
days/times and lasts for several hours. So I'll just have to sit and
wait...

>
> I don't get the connection with a process simply waiting in
> un-interruptable sleep causing a process scheduling backlog. As
> long as a process is on the un-interruptable wait queue the kernel
> doesn't even see the process anymore during schedule time; it does
> not get woken up for signal delivery or semaphore releases.
>
> Can you enlightenment about this? No quibble about earlier 2.4 VM
> being buggy, but after about 2.4.14 this smoothed out pretty well.
>
> HEY! ORIGINAL POSTER! What does the 'uname -r' program say?

2.4.18-14

>
> Cheers!
> 

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