Re: weirdness in 2.0.24 - maybe nothing ?

Petri Kaukasoina (kaukasoi@elektroni.ee.tut.fi)
Sun, 28 Jun 1998 12:45:26 +0300


On Sun, Jun 28, 1998, Spudgun <spudgun@earthlight.co.nz> wrote:

> Just a coupple of things I've notice on my lil 486 using 2.0.34
> they may be nothing , buy they may be somthing *shrug*, so I'm posting just
> incase ....

> 4:39am up 3 days, 3:23, 7 users, load average: 0.27, 0.72, 0.44

> USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
> root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Jun 25 71224874:50 (kflushd)

Well, I think it's something more than nothing. Let's see some older
messages from the archives. Look at the CPU time of kflushd...

On Thu, Mar 05, 1998, Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net> wrote:

> Speaking of kswapd...anyone ever seen kswapd eat LOTS of CPU time?
> Today, or Squid server started acting funny (atually, it just stopped
> processing requests even though it was running and eating fds) and the
> only other odd thing I noticed was:
>
> root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW<Mar 3 71224874:27 (kswapd)
>
> The system's only been up 1 day. Is the kernel (2.0.33) confused?

On Tue, Jan 21, 1997, Petri Kaukasoina <kaukasoi@elektroni.ee.tut.fi> wrote:

> Something strange just happened. Reading news became very very slow
> and syslog received these:
>
> Jan 21 15:23:08 elektroni kernel: eth0: Infinite loop in interrupt, status
20$
> Jan 21 15:23:08 elektroni last message repeated 10 times
> Jan 21 15:24:01 elektroni kernel: eth0: Infinite loop in interrupt, status
20$
>
> After a minute or so everything seems ok again.
>
> But kflushed has gained a "little" cpu time:
>
> USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
> root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Jan 14 71224874:23 (kflushd)
>
> Kernel 2.0.28, 486/66, IDE, ext2, VLB, 16 M RAM, 3c509b. IP-firewall. Xfree.

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