> I was expecting a more serious bug-fix. I recently upgraded my kernel from
> 2.4.11pre1 to 2.4.13-pre2aa1. Now anacron "kill"s the machine every morning
> by starting updatedb. Basicly everything swaps out. If I don't touch the
> mouse for 3 seconds, it will take 15 seconds to respond next time I touch it.
> Switching between desktops in KDE, takes from 3 to 10 minutes, and updatedb
> never seems to complete, I have had to kill it manually every time so far. I
> had similar problems every morning with 2.4.9 although not as bad, but I
> havent seen them before in 2.4.10 and later.
> The problem is easily replicable, I just need to run updatedb. Would you like
> some statistics and which?
That would be really interesting. If you want to have a look:
admin:/etc # cat /proc/meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 922664960 882900992 39763968 0 104587264 214876160
Swap: 271392768 0 271392768
MemTotal: 901040 kB
MemFree: 38832 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 102136 kB
Cached: 209840 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 40252 kB
Inactive: 271724 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 901040 kB
LowFree: 38832 kB
SwapTotal: 265032 kB
SwapFree: 265032 kB
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 6297280 5941616 355664 95% /
/dev/sda2 31111 25873 3632 88% /boot
/dev/hda1 20043416 19405616 637800 97% /p3
/dev/sda4 29245432 27529888 1715544 95% /p2
shmfs 450520 0 450520 0% /dev/shm
admin:/ # time updatedb --localpaths="/ /p2 /p3"
real 0m19.197s
user 0m15.440s
sys 0m5.260s
admin:/etc # ls -l /var/lib/locatedb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5321293 Oct 16 15:13 /var/lib/locatedb
admin:/etc # uname -r
2.4.13-pre2
3:14pm up 2 days, 18:15, 24 users, load average: 1.16, 1.10, 1.04
119 processes: 117 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU0 states: 54.5% user, 2.4% system, 53.0% nice, 42.4% idle
CPU1 states: 45.0% user, 1.1% system, 45.1% nice, 53.1% idle
Mem: 901040K av, 847480K used, 53560K free, 0K shrd, 90544K buff
Swap: 265032K av, 0K used, 265032K free 206296K cached
On my system I cannot see anything the like. Look at the execution time.
Ok, I must admit: I do not use brain-dead K stuff (warning: this is a very
personal opinion, don't flame me here :-).
What does your setup look like? Have you ever tested without K?
Regards,
Stephan
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