> I've recently been going slightly nuts with the fact ac15, 16, and 17
> all like deadlocking/slowing to a crawl for seconds/minutes on my K6-III
> with 64MB of ram and a swap space of 128MB...
>
> Recently I noticed something VERY odd, I'd been keeping an eye on
> gkrellm while I was doing stupid things to produce the problem (a du
> as root in X of / generally would always make it pop up) ... And swap
> was doing I/O at the time *JUST* before when I'd either deadlock or slow
> down to a crawl, and if it recovered, swap would do more I/O...
>
> So. I tried unmounting all swap, and suddenly everything worked fine,
> although I couldn't exactly do everythign I wanted of course.
>
> I regression tested this, ac 16,15 and even 14 do this. ac 13 does *not*
> - IMHO I think the dead swap patches introduced into 14 may be related
> to the problem.
1) the dead swap cache patch should alleviate the problem,
if anything
2) does this happen with 2.4.6-pre5 too ?
regards,
Rik
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