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From: "Jeff Busch" <jbusch@half.com>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <roswell-list@redhat.com>
Subject: [problem] RH 2.4.7-2 kernel slows to a crawl under heavy i/o
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 16:57:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <NEBBJGKHGENBAPAMDILGIEFGGOAA.jbusch@half.com> (raw)

machine:  Compaq Proliant DL360 w/4GB mem, dual 36GB SCSI drives
OS:	    RedHat 7.1 + errata updates, kernel-enterprise-2.4.7-2.i686.rpm from
'Roswell 2'

Under heavy I/O (Apache and a custom C++ module which do lots of mmap and
munmap calls over large data sets - 7GB total), the machine slows to a
crawl.  The problem persists even after live traffic to the machine ceases.
A top listing shows both cpu's at 100% system.  Any commands (ps, uname,
whatever) take minutes to return results.

The same setup on RH 6.2 with 2.4.3-ac3 works fine.  Please let me know what
information may be useful to debugging this problem (no oops yet), and other
kernels to try; I'm looking at 2.4.8-ac9 right now.

Thanks,
Jeff Busch
System Administrator
Half.com - an eBay company


             reply	other threads:[~2001-08-22 21:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-22 21:57 Jeff Busch [this message]
2001-08-22 22:12 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-23 10:26   ` Francois Romieu
2001-08-22 23:35 ` David Lang
2001-08-23  1:10   ` Jeff Busch
2001-08-23  3:39   ` Jeff Busch
2001-08-23  3:31 ` Daniel Phillips

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