Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Marc-Christian Petersen <> | Subject | Re: filesystem access slowing system to a crawl | Date | Wed, 19 Feb 2003 17:42:34 +0100 |
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On Wednesday 05 February 2003 10:39, Andrew Morton wrote:
Hi Andrew,
> > Running just "find /" (or ls -R or tar on a large directory) locally > > slows the box down to absolute unresponsiveness - it takes minutes > > to just run ps and kill the find process. During that time, kupdated > > and kswapd gobble up all available CPU time. > Could be that your "low memory" is filled up with inodes. This would > only happen in these tests if you're using ext2, and there are a *lot* > of directories. > I've prepared a lineup of Andrea's VM patches at > It would be useful if you could apply 10_inode-highmem-2.patch and > report back. It applies to 2.4.19 as well, and should work OK there. is there any reason why this (inode-highmem-2) has never been submitted for inclusion into mainline yet?
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