Re: Pauses in 2.5.44 (some kind of memory policy change?)

[Simon Kirby]

On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 01:42:27PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:

> "Adam J. Richter" wrote:
> >...
> >  3  0  2      0   9196  31420 178172    0    0     0 17152 6939   259  3 97  0
> >  1  0  1      0   2452  31420 185112    0    0     0  4056 4061   278  9 91  0
> 
> Sorry, don't know.
> 
> It's possible that your X server got paged out, but the system
> doesn't seem to be under any sort of stress, and there's not
> much page reclaim happening and no evidence of executable pagein.
> 
> I'm assuming that everything is on local disks apart from that
> mail file.  Really, you haven't told me much.  What's all that
> `bo' activity there?  What filesystems are in use?

The "bi" and "bo" are accidentally reversed in the kernel. :)
I can't believe nobody else has noticed this.

(I'm pretty sure I checked that vmstat was not reversing them.  The
numbers in /proc/vmstat were backwards...)

Simon-

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