Re: Does linux-2.2.15 have a serious disk problem? (was Re: End of first test cycle, new packages installed)
* Bas Zoetekouw <bas@medeia.dhs.org> [000525 09:35]:
> Thus spake Colin Watson (cjw44@flatline.org.uk):
>
> > The later 2.3.99-pre* kernels have serious virtual memory management
> > problems on many machines; the visible effect is kswapd hogging massive
> > amounts of CPU time on even reasonable levels of I/O. I found them
> > unusable for any length of time on my machine. Looks like it should be
> > fixed soon, though ...
> >
> > I've heard some rumours that 2.2.15 *may* have similar problems, but I
> > can't offer much more than innuendo. I think we'd need more than rumour
> > to roll it back out of the test cycle.
>
> IIRC, this is indeed the case. It seems, however, that not everyone
> running those kernels is affected (depending on hardware and/or software
> configuration pesumably).
> See http://kt.linuxcare.com/kernel-traffic/latest.epl#5 for more info.
I am one of the victims. See
http://kernelnotes.org/lnxlists/linux-kernel/lk_0005_03/msg00603.html
As one can see in the thread, even with andre hedricks Patches the
Problem is not resolved fully.
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