On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 01:55:05PM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> Okay !! I just made all my filesystem except root ext2.
> (I couldn't boot when I configed out ext3 - mounting
> root failed).
>
> Anyway, problem seem to have gone away..
> Machine is really slow while trying to do IO on
> all 4000 filesystems. It is slowly creating processes.
> System is 100% busy. (so far, it created 461 processes
> out of 4000). But we are not running out of lowmem and
> inode caches seems to be reasonable..
>
> So, it must be some leak in ext3..
>
Or bad things happening because you have hundreds of processes all
updating the same physical journal...
You mounted rw, and reading a file causes a write due to atime updates.
--
................................................................
: jakob@unthought.net : And I see the elder races, :
:.........................: putrid forms of man :
: Jakob Østergaard : See him rise and claim the earth, :
: OZ9ABN : his downfall is at hand. :
:.........................:............{Konkhra}...............:
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Mon Apr 07 2003 - 22:00:30 EST