From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 21:10:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 21:10:40 -0400 Received: from mail.deja.com ([65.195.161.135]:45580 "EHLO mail.deja.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 21:10:26 -0400 From: "Jeff Busch" To: "David Lang" Cc: , Subject: RE: [problem] RH 2.4.7-2 kernel slows to a crawl under heavy i/o Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 20:10:40 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I have been trying to duplicate a similar problem in my lab that happened > to me on a production box with 2.4.5. do you have a test that will allow > you to replicate the problem at will? This problem only occured under live traffic on a production box. Our normal sanity checks worked fine, but they only generate light traffic. The running code and the data are proprietary, so I can't hand 'em out. I'll see if we can come up with a generic case that replicates the problem. -Jeff