Re: 2.6.21 frozen for a few minutes, swapping to disk

2007-04-30 Thread Nick Piggin
Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 01 May 2007 15:42:30 +1000 Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hm, a genuine oom on an all-ext3 data=ordered i386 system, just like a million other people. How very weird. I assume all those pages on the LRU are pagecache pages which for some reason we're unab

Re: 2.6.21 frozen for a few minutes, swapping to disk

2007-04-30 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 01 May 2007 15:42:30 +1000 Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hm, a genuine oom on an all-ext3 data=ordered i386 system, just like a > > million other people. How very weird. > > > > I assume all those pages on the LRU are pagecache pages which for some > > reason we're unable to

Re: 2.6.21 frozen for a few minutes, swapping to disk

2007-04-30 Thread Nick Piggin
Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:28:05 +0100 Miguel Figueiredo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, today, with 2.6.21, my laptop had a really odd behaviour. It started writing to disk for a few minutes with no interactivity at all (no redraw on screen, only hdd led on). It's the f

Re: 2.6.21 frozen for a few minutes, swapping to disk

2007-04-30 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:28:05 +0100 Miguel Figueiredo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > today, with 2.6.21, my laptop had a really odd behaviour. It started > writing to disk for a few minutes with no interactivity at all (no > redraw on screen, only hdd led on). It's the first time i not

2.6.21 frozen for a few minutes, swapping to disk

2007-04-29 Thread Miguel Figueiredo
Hi all, today, with 2.6.21, my laptop had a really odd behaviour. It started writing to disk for a few minutes with no interactivity at all (no redraw on screen, only hdd led on). It's the first time i noticed OOM-killer started do kill programs. It was totally unresponsive for minutes, afte