On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Jorgen Skjaanes wrote:
>> My system is a K6-200 with 96 Megs of RAM. The kernels that I'm
>> using are stock Official kernels from ftp.kernel.org with NO
>> external patches and NO 3rd party hacks or kernel modules. Just
>> a plain Jane kernel.
>>
>> Anyone else experience loss of interactivity and slowdowns on
>> 2.2.14?
>
>Well, yes, I think so. The problem is I don't have a good "before"
>situation to compare with. I installed a database service doing
>some logging every 5 minutes and upgraded from 2.2.8-pre5 at the
>same time. After that when the database is doing its stuff both
>the database process and netscape gets stuck in D-state in wait_on_page
>for many seconds while the disk (Adaptec AIC7xxx contr) is trashing
>like mad. If I close netscape during this I can see the netscape
>process staying in wait_on_page for up to 15 seconds before it exits.
>The computer (a PPro-200, 160MB) is being so unresponsive that I've
>ordered a new one. I sort of thought it was just being overloaded,
>and maybe it is, but processes being stuck in D-state for such a long
>time doesn't seem right. And since you asked...
>
>And it's not swap related. Or at least vmstat doesn't say so. Though
>it is allways deep into swap. Right now when X is not running:
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
>Mem: 160512 157532 2980 39880 3276 115928
>-/+ buffers/cache: 38328 122184
>Swap: 72288 26980 45308
>
>( I know this is not a good and detailed report, but since I haven't seen
> anyone else seeing this I still am not sure it's a bug. And I don't want
> to flood the list with ps output and every litle detail if it isn't.)
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 98168832 95830016 2338816 14954496 28844032 37449728
Swap: 115077120 18284544 96792576
Another oddity is that I'm using the EXACT same apps now as I did
a year ago, and a year ago I had 64M of RAM, and around 70M of
swap and it would barely ever go into swap at all for any reason
(2.2.[0-5]).. Now I have 96Mb RAM and 115Mb swap and it is in
swap quite a bit, but not usually more than 20Mb or so.
The only processes using significant memory right now are:
1239 mharris 5 0 16604 10M 4860 S 0 0.5 11.5 4:17 netscape-com
831 root 0 0 9136 8912 800 S 0 0.0 9.2 2:45 X
721 mharris 0 0 3060 2988 1208 S 0 0.0 3.1 2:13 pine
871 mharris 0 0 2044 1148 852 S 0 0.0 1.1 0:02 kpanel
840 mharris 0 0 1796 1092 884 S 0 0.0 1.1 0:18 kbgndwm
4959 root 14 0 988 988 788 R 0 1.3 1.0 0:00 top
870 mharris 0 0 1172 984 240 S 0 0.0 1.0 0:00 krootwm
836 mharris 0 0 1620 780 600 S 0 0.0 0.8 0:03 kwm
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