Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Mar 2003 19:56:56 -0500 (EST) | Subject | Re: 2.5.65: *huge* interactivity problems | From | "George Glover" <> |
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I also have a similar problem, when running setiathome with priority 1.
All _running_ applications remain interactive, anything requring disk access, in particular starting a new program, causes things to block.
I've so far only been in X when this happens, mouse still moves, remote applications update their windows fine, no lost keystrokes, it's when I run something locally requiring disk IO.
Renicing setiathome to -19 causes the problem to vanish.
Dragging an xterm around seems to help it recover from a hang too.
> - How much memory does the machine have?
256
> - UP/SMP/preempt?
preempt
> > - What do vmstat and top say?
3 1 2216 21008 27464 69920 0 0 0 0 1024 241 100 0 0 0 3 1 2216 20176 27464 69920 0 0 0 0 1024 249 100 0 0 0 3 1 2216 20176 27464 69920 0 0 0 0 1024 252 99 1 0 0 3 1 2216 21060 27464 69920 0 0 0 0 1025 236 100 0 0 0
> - Did it happen in 2.5.64? 2.5.63? 2.4.20?
2.5.64
> - Does it get better if you renice stuff?
Yes
> - What steps should others take to reproduce it?
Running setiathome with priority one seems to do it for me.
George
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