Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15

Adam Sampson (azz@gnu.org)
20 Jun 2001 20:25:31 +0100


Walter Hofmann <walter.hofmann@physik.stud.uni-erlangen.de> writes:

> It hung when I tried to close a browser window after reading the
> text in it for quite some time. No swapping was going on.

I've just seen this as well (for the first time) with -ac15. I was
playing music with madplay at the time, and then did a "find . -type f
-print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644" on a large directory tree on a reiserfs
partition. A few seconds after I started the command, I got a hang
which lasted a few seconds, then another, then another just after the
find finished. It hasn't happened again since.

All I got in the kernel log was:
2001-06-20 20:15:52.260230500 warning: Sound: DMA (output) timed out -
IRQ/DRQ config error?
2001-06-20 20:16:07.472837500 warning: Sound: DMA (output) timed out -
IRQ/DRQ config error?
which makes sense, since the sound paused at the same time...

Memory stats at the moment (i.e. about five minutes after it happened,
with exactly the same stuff running):

(azz:~) free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 288240 286652 1588 196 30348 224860
-/+ buffers/cache: 31444 256796
Swap: 1048784 52176 996608
(azz:~) vmstat
procs memory swap io system cpu
r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id
1 0 0 52184 1588 30348 224876 0 2 53 62 153 400 68 10 22

.config available on request.

-- 
Adam Sampson <azz@gnu.org>                  <URL:http://azz.us-lot.org/>
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