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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Steven Roussey <sroussey@network54.com>
Cc: robm@fastmail.fm, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Strange load spikes on 2.4.19 kernel
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 15:09:38 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DF7C5B2.D9E0249C@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 000b01c2a168$37e747d0$026fa8c0@wehohome

Steven Roussey wrote:
> 
> Was there ever a solution to this issue?

No.  It wasn't clear what was going on.

>  Is it kernel or ext3 based issue?

One of those.

> Is there a workaround?

Tried mounting all filesystems `-o noatime'?

> I've spent two months looking for a source and
> solution to this issue. It is pressing for me since all our users get locked
> out at the height of the spike. Ours is a webserver.
> 

Is there much disk write activity?  What journalling mode
are you using?

The output of `ps aux' during a stall would be interesting,
as would the `vmstat 1' ouptut.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-11 23:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-11 22:54 Strange load spikes on 2.4.19 kernel Steven Roussey
2002-12-11 23:09 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-12-11 23:54   ` Steven Roussey
2002-12-12  0:13     ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-12  0:31       ` Steven Roussey
     [not found] <113001c27282$93955eb0$1900a8c0@lifebook.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <000001c27286$6ab6bc60$7443f4d1@joe.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]   ` <20021013.000127.43007739.davem@redhat.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-10-13  7:24     ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-13  7:21       ` David S. Miller
2002-10-13 11:47       ` Hugh Dickins
2002-10-13 18:29         ` Andrew Morton
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0210130202070.17395-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2002-10-13  6:34 ` Rob Mueller
2002-10-13  7:01   ` Joseph D. Wagner
2002-10-13  7:01     ` David S. Miller
2002-10-13  7:49       ` Joseph D. Wagner
2002-10-13  7:50         ` David S. Miller
2002-10-13  8:16           ` Joseph D. Wagner
2002-10-13  8:13             ` David S. Miller
2002-10-13  8:40               ` Joseph D. Wagner
2002-10-13  8:45                 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-13  8:48                 ` Mike Galbraith
2002-10-13  8:48                   ` David S. Miller
2002-10-13  8:51                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-10-13 10:20                 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-13 19:42                 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-16 21:00         ` Bill Davidsen
2002-10-13  8:59     ` Anton Blanchard
2002-10-13  9:26       ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-10-13 12:31   ` Marius Gedminas
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0210121605490.16179-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2002-10-13  0:49 ` Rob Mueller
     [not found] <001401c2719b$9d45c4a0$53241c43@joe>
2002-10-12  6:54 ` Rob Mueller
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-12  3:13 Joseph D. Wagner
2002-10-12  3:10 Joseph D. Wagner
2002-10-12  1:12 Rob Mueller
2002-10-12  1:25 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-12  2:25   ` Rob Mueller
2002-10-12  3:07     ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-12  6:37       ` Rob Mueller
2002-10-12  6:44         ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-12  6:52           ` Rob Mueller
2002-10-12  7:00             ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-13  6:14               ` Rob Mueller
2002-10-13  7:27                 ` Simon Kirby

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