Very weird slowdowns on 2.0.33

Fred Leeflang (fredl@webeasy.com)
Tue, 24 Mar 1998 14:54:31 -0800


Hi,

I'm seeing very odd slowdowns on my system:

time tar xzvf apache_1.2.4.tar.gz:
0.39user 0.31system 1:12.21elapsed 0%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (263major+711minor)pagefaults 0swaps

1:12 to untar the apache tar seems a bit long to me... I just noticed
that one of my filesystems is overflooding but that's the only thing
that seems odd. The systemload is 0.0something and only goes up a little
bit during the untar, the CPU is mostly idle (about 90% idle, which
really surprises me).

As another observation; I'm having rather big problems with this 2.0.33
kernel, it seems to crash a couple of times on me every day I've checked
the /var/log/messages (I'm running RH5.0) but see no log entries, except
sometimes these (I've considered bad RAM...):

Mar 23 10:43:33 dutchie kernel: Trying to free nonexistent swap-page
Mar 23 10:44:47 dutchie kernel: Trying to free nonexistent swap-page

Memory doesn't seem a problem to me:

[root@dutchie fredl]# free
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 63176 61392 1784 54668 10424
23296
-/+ buffers/cache: 27672 35504
Swap: 66492 20 66472

Anybody have a clue?

Thanks,
Fred Leeflang

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