From: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>, t.baetzler@bringe.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Subject: Re: filesystem access slowing system to a crawl
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 17:42:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200302191742.02275.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030205013909.6a8c04a3.akpm@digeo.com>
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 10:39, Andrew Morton wrote:
Hi Andrew,
> > Running just "find /" (or ls -R or tar on a large directory) locally
> > slows the box down to absolute unresponsiveness - it takes minutes
> > to just run ps and kill the find process. During that time, kupdated
> > and kswapd gobble up all available CPU time.
> Could be that your "low memory" is filled up with inodes. This would
> only happen in these tests if you're using ext2, and there are a *lot*
> of directories.
> I've prepared a lineup of Andrea's VM patches at
> It would be useful if you could apply 10_inode-highmem-2.patch and
> report back. It applies to 2.4.19 as well, and should work OK there.
is there any reason why this (inode-highmem-2) has never been submitted for
inclusion into mainline yet?
ciao, Marc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-19 16:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-04 9:29 Thomas Bätzler
2003-02-05 9:03 ` Denis Vlasenko
2003-02-05 9:39 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-19 16:42 ` Marc-Christian Petersen [this message]
2003-02-19 17:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-20 15:29 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-02-20 18:35 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-20 21:32 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-02-20 21:41 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-20 22:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-20 21:54 ` xdr nfs highmem deadlock fix [Re: filesystem access slowing system to a crawl] Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-20 22:56 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-02-20 23:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-02-20 23:12 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-02-21 9:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-22 0:40 ` David S. Miller
2003-02-23 15:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-21 9:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-21 9:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-21 20:52 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-21 21:32 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-02-20 23:15 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-02-21 9:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-21 19:41 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-02-21 19:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-26 23:17 ` filesystem access slowing system to a crawl Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-02-27 8:51 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-02-20 19:30 ` William Stearns
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