Kernel becoming quite unresponsive during mkraid

christophe.leroy5@capway.com
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 10:08:52 +0100


My kernel becomes a turtle when I use mkraid to create raid 1
array,
Processes are swapped out, nothing (in user space) seems to use
memory, and memory has vanished ...

USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START
TIME COMMAND
daemon 63 0.0 0.0 852 0 ? SW 20:45 0:00 (portmap)
daemon 74 0.0 0.0 1048 0 ? SW 20:45 0:00 (lpd)
root 1 0.1 0.0 840 0 ? SW 20:44 0:03 (init)
root 2 0.5 0.0 0 0 ? DW 20:44 0:16 (kflushd)
root 3 0.1 0.0 0 0 ? SW 20:44 0:04 (kswapd)
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 20:44 0:00 (md_thread)
root 12 0.0 0.1 816 44 ? S 20:44 0:02 /sbin/update
root 26 0.0 0.3 928 76 ? S 20:45 0:00
/sbin/watchdog
root 54 0.0 0.0 216 0 ? SW 20:45 0:00 (klogd)
root 56 0.0 0.2 320 48 ? S 20:45 0:02 syslogd
root 65 0.0 0.0 844 0 ? SW 20:45 0:00 (inetd)
root 73 0.0 0.0 852 0 ? SW 20:45 0:00 (cron)
root 77 0.0 1.0 1284 0 ? SW 20:45 0:00 (sendmail)
root 89 0.0 0.0 840 20 ? S 20:45 0:00 /usr/bin/gpm -
m /dev/
root 96 0.0 0.2 1320 56 ? D 20:45 0:02
/usr/sbin/httpd
root 107 0.0 0.0 1156 0 ? SW 20:45 0:00
(safe_mysqld)
root 116 0.0 0.0 2296 20 ? S 20:45 0:00 (mysqld)
root 118 0.0 0.0 1180 0 ? SW 20:45 0:00 (snmptrapd)
root 120 0.0 0.0 2296 20 ? S 20:45 0:01 (mysqld)
root 121 0.0 0.0 2296 20 ? S 20:45 0:00 (mysqld)
root 123 0.0 0.6 1284 0 ? SW 20:45 0:01 /sbin/snmpd -
f
root 130 0.0 1.7 1184 388 1 S 20:45 0:01 -bash
root 131 0.0 0.0 1188 0 2 SW 20:45 0:00 (bash)
root 132 0.0 0.0 1176 0 3 SW 20:45 0:02 (bash)
root 133 0.0 0.0 828 0 4 SW 20:45 0:00 (agetty)
root 134 0.0 0.0 828 0 5 SW 20:45 0:00 (agetty)
root 135 0.0 0.0 828 0 6 SW 20:45 0:00 (agetty)
root 640 25.2 0.0 916 0 2 DW 21:29 1:35 (mkraid)
root 697 0.0 1.7 896 392 1 R 21:35 0:00 ps -aux
webadm 99 0.0 0.0 1320 0 ? SW 20:45 0:00 (httpd)
webadm 100 0.0 0.0 1320 0 ? SW 20:45 0:00 (httpd)
webadm 101 0.0 0.0 1320 0 ? SW 20:45 0:00 (httpd)
webadm 102 0.0 0.0 1320 0 ? SW 20:45 0:00 (httpd)
webadm 103 0.0 0.0 1320 0 ? SW 20:45 0:00 (httpd)

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