Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> writes:
> > * On -mm3 under some loads mplayer can get very erratic, and after
> >   playing a videostream for about 10-15 mins it gets progressivly more
> >   prone to stalling. Moving the mousepointer into the window, and wiggling
> >   it a bit restores it for a while.
> 
> grr.  Can you run `vmstat 1' and see if those stalls correspond with swap
> or disk I/O?
Here's the result of some light poking in my mailbox (moving single
mails form one folder to another, moved about 8 mails while this
scrolled by:
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy id wa
 1  1   3700   4640   3568 479976    0    0   128 16020 2233  1926 50  4  0 46
 0  1   3700   4512   3568 463812    0    0   128  8704 2233  2856 13  4  0 83
 0  0   3700   5728   3624 500064    0    0   128  3424 2161  1428 51 21  8 20
 0  0   3700   5664   3624 500192    0    0   128     0 2070  2496 12  2 86  0
 0  1   3700   5536   3628 500320    0    0   128 13496 2188  2560 13  3 43 41
 9  1   3700   5408   3628 500448    0    0   128 16904 2325  2614 17  3  0 80
 0  1   3700   4576   3628 468596    0    0   128  8516 2222  2418 34  6  0 60
 3  1   3700   4832   3680 493404    0    0   128  7620 2220  1403 51 20  0 29
 0  0   3700  12192   3692 493532    0    0   132   180 2156  2601 18  3 45 33
 0  1   3700  12064   3716 493660    0    0   148 16372 2152  2640 13  3 40 45
 0  1   3700  11232   3724 477160    0    0   128  9488 2217  2392 38  5  0 57
 0  2   3700  11044   3724 460640    0    0   132  8960 2230  2869 13  4  0 83
 1  0   3700  15588   3788 489996    0    0   132 11896 2195  1246 61 19 16  4
 1  0   3700  15460   3788 490124    0    0   128     0 2078  2480 13  2 85  0
 0  2   3700  15284   3796 490252    0    0   128 10332 2198  2974 26  5 26 42
 0  2   3700  15220   3800 490380    0    0   128 16924 2310  2653 20  3  0 77
 0  1   3700  15092   3800 490508    0    0   128 17688 2363  2842 23  3  0 74
 0  0   3700  15348   3808 490636    0    0   128  1768 2239  2510 19  4 12 65
 0  0   3700  15220   3808 490764    0    0   128     0 2098  2584 19  2 79  0
 alexh@lapper ~ $
I'll have a hunt around to get more output if you want?
mvh,
A
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Alexander Hoogerhuis                               | alexh@ihatent.com
CCNP - CCDP - MCNE - CCSE                          | +47 908 21 485
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