From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 15:43:26 +0200 From: Carlo Wood Subject: "kswapd bug" Message-ID: <20000516154326.A1077@a2000.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Here is a report from yet another user who ran into this "kswapd bug". I bought a new harddisk (my first udma) and upgraded at the same time to kernel 2.2.15 (from 2.2.12). Then I had problems playing mp3's: the whole system would 'freeze' for a fraction of a second to sometimes even several seconds - making listening to music impossible. It clearly had to do with disk access, and 2.2.x was supposed to be stable :/, so I bought a new controller (Promise Ultra-66). I couldn't get the Ultra to work with 2.2.x, so I upgraded the kernel to 2.3.99-pre6 to find the SAME system freezes :/. Now I found out that the system was freezing every time 'kswapd' was running. I then subbed to this list and read in the past days that it is a known problem. Today I upgraded to 2.3.99-pre9-pre1 and applied classzone-28 (VM28). Now I don't see system freezes anymore and can play mp3's again without any problems. Everything seems to run smooth again. -- Carlo Wood -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/