Re: 2.4.20-rc1 - hang with processes stuck in D

From: Jakob Oestergaard (jakob@unthought.net)
Date: Sat Nov 09 2002 - 17:39:21 EST


On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 07:43:10PM +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >>>>> " " == Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net> writes:
...
> > Everything using disk, both on NFS clients and locally running
> > processes, just pause. Five seconds after everything is like it
> > never happened.
>
> If you are using HIGHMEM, then the stock 2.4.20-rc1 has a known issue
> with an unbalanced kmap. Marcelo has already applied the following
> patch in the latest bitkeeper update.

No highmem. The box has 512 MB RAM.

I get some
eth1: TX underrun, threshold adjusted.
eth0: TX underrun, threshold adjusted.
messages in the syslog - probably around 100 messages or so, but they
stop appearing after a day of uptime or so. This is two bonded Intel
eepro100 cards, using the "Becker" driver (not the Intel one which I saw
was included). Those messages do not seem to be correlated with the
pauses at all though.

That's the *only* anomaly except for the pauses, that I see on the box.

The machine has run 2.4.20-rc1 for 5 days now, with an average load
probably around 3 or 4 (load 2 caused by two long-running CPU hogs, the
rest comes from disk I/O, mostly because it's NFS exporting a 147G fs).

Stable so far, but the "hickups" are weird.

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