Re: Updatedb hangs Kernel 2.6.22.9-cfs-v22

2008-01-16 Thread Dhaval Giani
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 02:40:53PM -0200, Renato S. Yamane wrote: > Ray Lee escreveu: >> On Jan 14, 2008 7:28 AM, Renato S. Yamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Ray Lee escreveu: On Jan 12, 2008 10:03 AM, Renato S. Yamane wrote: > I can't use updatedb in Debian Etch (stable) using customi

Re: Updatedb hangs Kernel 2.6.22.9-cfs-v22

2008-01-16 Thread Renato S. Yamane
Ray Lee escreveu: On Jan 14, 2008 7:28 AM, Renato S. Yamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ray Lee escreveu: On Jan 12, 2008 10:03 AM, Renato S. Yamane wrote: I can't use updatedb in Debian Etch (stable) using customized Kernel 2.6.22.9-cfs-v22. When I ran updatedb, after ~1 minute my system hang

Re: Updatedb hangs Kernel 2.6.22.9-cfs-v22

2008-01-16 Thread Ray Lee
On Jan 14, 2008 7:28 AM, Renato S. Yamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ray Lee escreveu: > > On Jan 12, 2008 10:03 AM, Renato S. Yamane wrote: > >> I can't use updatedb in Debian Etch (stable) using customized Kernel > >> 2.6.22.9-cfs-v22. > >> > >> When I ran updatedb, after ~1 minute my system ha

Re: Updatedb hangs Kernel 2.6.22.9-cfs-v22

2008-01-14 Thread Renato S. Yamane
Ray Lee escreveu: On Jan 12, 2008 10:03 AM, Renato S. Yamane wrote: I can't use updatedb in Debian Etch (stable) using customized Kernel 2.6.22.9-cfs-v22. When I ran updatedb, after ~1 minute my system hangs and "caps lock" LED is blinking. No log is registered. Please switch out of X11 to a

Re: Updatedb hangs Kernel 2.6.22.9-cfs-v22

2008-01-12 Thread Dhaval Giani
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 04:03:43PM -0200, Renato S. Yamane wrote: > Hi, > I can't use updatedb in Debian Etch (stable) using customized Kernel > 2.6.22.9-cfs-v22. > Hi, Can you see if it happens with the latest CFS backport. Its been updated quite a bit since then. You can find it at http://peop

Re: Updatedb hangs Kernel 2.6.22.9-cfs-v22

2008-01-12 Thread Ray Lee
On Jan 12, 2008 10:03 AM, Renato S. Yamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I can't use updatedb in Debian Etch (stable) using customized Kernel > 2.6.22.9-cfs-v22. > > When I ran updatedb, after ~1 minute my system hangs and "caps lock" LED > is blinking. No log is registered. Please switch out

Re: updatedb

2007-07-27 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Rene Herman schrieb: > On 07/27/2007 01:48 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote: > >> I believe the users who say their apps really do get paged back in >> though, so suspect that's not the case. > > Stopping the bush-circumference beating, I do not. -ck (and gentoo) have > this massive Calimero thing going

Re: updatedb

2007-07-27 Thread Rene Herman
On 07/27/2007 01:48 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote: physical ram. If it really does use only free ram, that indeed sounds pretty pointless. Con's quote from a bit below that seems to confirm the "only free" nicely. I believe the users who say their apps really do get paged back in though, so susp

Re: updatedb

2007-07-27 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 13:09 +0200, Rene Herman wrote: > On 07/27/2007 11:26 AM, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > Updatedb finishes, freeing some ram (doesn't matter how much) > > Will be very little and swap-prefetch at least in its current form needs > more than very little to start doing anything:

Re: updatedb

2007-07-27 Thread Rene Herman
On 07/27/2007 11:26 AM, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 10:28 +0200, Rene Herman wrote: I still wonder what the "the swap thing" is though. People just kept saying that swap-prefetch helped which would seem to indicate their problem didnt have anything to do with updatedb. I hav

Re: updatedb

2007-07-27 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 10:28 +0200, Rene Herman wrote: > On 07/27/2007 09:54 AM, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 08:00 +0200, Rene Herman wrote: > > > >> The remaining issue of updatedb unnecessarily blowing away VFS caches is > >> being discussed (*) in a few thread-branches st

Re: updatedb

2007-07-27 Thread Rene Herman
On 07/27/2007 09:54 AM, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 08:00 +0200, Rene Herman wrote: The remaining issue of updatedb unnecessarily blowing away VFS caches is being discussed (*) in a few thread-branches still running. If you solve that, the swap thing dies too, they're one and

Re: updatedb

2007-07-27 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 08:00 +0200, Rene Herman wrote: > The remaining issue of updatedb unnecessarily blowing away VFS caches is > being discussed (*) in a few thread-branches still running. If you solve that, the swap thing dies too, they're one and the same problem. -Mike - To unsubs

Re: updatedb

2007-07-26 Thread Rene Herman
On 07/27/2007 02:46 AM, Jesper Juhl wrote: On 26/07/07, Andika Triwidada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Might be insignificant, but updatedb calls find (~2M) and sort (~26M). Definitely not RAM intensive though (RAM is 1GB). That doesn't match my box at all : [ ... ] This is a Slackware Lin

Re: updatedb

2007-07-26 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 26/07/07, Andika Triwidada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/26/07, Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 07/25/2007 07:15 PM, Robert Deaton wrote: > > > On 7/25/07, Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> And there we go again -- off into blabber-land. Why does swap-prefetch > >> he

Re: updatedb

2007-07-26 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Thursday 26 July 2007 10:01:11 Rene Herman wrote: > On 07/26/2007 09:08 AM, Bongani Hlope wrote: > > On Thursday 26 July 2007 08:56:59 Rene Herman wrote: > >> Great. Now concentrate on the "swpd" column, as it's the only thing > >> relevant here. The fact that an updatedb run fills/replaces cach

Re: updatedb

2007-07-26 Thread Rene Herman
On 07/26/2007 11:58 AM, Björn Steinbrink wrote: Will now go and see what happens if I play with swappiness. I in fact managed to overlook _all_ of swappiness (*) and was quite frankly under the impression that Linux would simply never swap anything out to make room for cache. Which is basic

Re: updatedb

2007-07-26 Thread Björn Steinbrink
On 2007.07.26 11:58:29 +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > Note that the total RSS usage of updatedb+sort was just about 50MB, > nevertheless swap grew to more than 300MB. It's also interesting that > swapping is so aggressive, that the amount of free memory is constantly > growing. I'm a missing some

Re: updatedb

2007-07-26 Thread Björn Steinbrink
On 2007.07.26 08:56:59 +0200, Rene Herman wrote: > On 07/26/2007 08:39 AM, Bongani Hlope wrote: > >> On Thursday 26 July 2007 05:59:53 Rene Herman wrote: > >>> So what's happening? If you sit down with a copy op "top" in one terminal >>> and updatedb in another, what does it show? > >> Just tested

Re: updatedb

2007-07-26 Thread Andika Triwidada
On 7/26/07, Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 07/26/2007 08:23 AM, Andika Triwidada wrote: > On 7/26/07, Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> RAM intensive? If I run updatedb here, it never grows itself beyond 2M. >> Yes, two. I'm certainly willing to accept that me and my systems

Re: updatedb

2007-07-26 Thread Rene Herman
On 07/26/2007 09:08 AM, Bongani Hlope wrote: On Thursday 26 July 2007 08:56:59 Rene Herman wrote: Great. Now concentrate on the "swpd" column, as it's the only thing relevant here. The fact that an updatedb run fills/replaces caches is completely and utterly unsurprising and not something sw

Re: updatedb

2007-07-26 Thread Rene Herman
On 07/26/2007 08:23 AM, Andika Triwidada wrote: On 7/26/07, Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: RAM intensive? If I run updatedb here, it never grows itself beyond 2M. Yes, two. I'm certainly willing to accept that me and my systems are possibly not the reference but assuming I'm _very_ s

Re: updatedb

2007-07-26 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Thursday 26 July 2007 08:56:59 Rene Herman wrote: > On 07/26/2007 08:39 AM, Bongani Hlope wrote: > > On Thursday 26 July 2007 05:59:53 Rene Herman wrote: > >> So what's happening? If you sit down with a copy op "top" in one > >> terminal and updatedb in another, what does it show? > > > > Just t

Re: updatedb

2007-07-25 Thread Rene Herman
On 07/26/2007 08:39 AM, Bongani Hlope wrote: On Thursday 26 July 2007 05:59:53 Rene Herman wrote: So what's happening? If you sit down with a copy op "top" in one terminal and updatedb in another, what does it show? Just tested that, there's a steady increase in the useage of buff Great.

Re: updatedb

2007-07-25 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Thursday 26 July 2007 05:59:53 Rene Herman wrote: > > Problem spot no. 1. > > RAM intensive? If I run updatedb here, it never grows itself beyond 2M. > Yes, two. I'm certainly willing to accept that me and my systems are > possibly not the reference but assuming I'm _very_ special hasn't done mu

Re: updatedb

2007-07-25 Thread Andika Triwidada
On 7/26/07, Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 07/25/2007 07:15 PM, Robert Deaton wrote: > On 7/25/07, Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> And there we go again -- off into blabber-land. Why does swap-prefetch >> help updatedb? Or doesn't it? And if it doesn't, why should anyone >>