From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, crackevil@gmail.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 12785] New: kswapd block the whole system by IO blaster in some case
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:29:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090226212918.fce45757.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bug-12785-10286@http.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:20:46 -0800 (PST) bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12785
>
> Summary: kswapd block the whole system by IO blaster in some case
> Product: Memory Management
> Version: 2.5
> KernelVersion: 2.6.28.4
> Platform: All
> OS/Version: Linux
> Tree: Mainline
> Status: NEW
> Severity: low
> Priority: P1
> Component: Other
> AssignedTo: akpm@osdl.org
> ReportedBy: crackevil@gmail.com
>
>
> Distribution:debian lenny with some experimental packages
> Hardware Environment:ThinkPad SL 400 7DC with 2G memery
> Software Environment:no swap partition,kernel with 4G memery support
> Problem Description:
> Some day, my box dived into a block while HDLED was blinking.
> I switched to console from gdm, tried iotop by long waiting and found the
> killer was kswapd.
> In "top" output, free memory is almost 50M.The most memory is cached by swap.
> The system blocked even shutdown command wasn't effective.The box had been
> killed by pressing then power button.
> BTW, there was no network available then, so there was no attack possibility.
>
> I'd like to attach my kernel config file, but I don't know how to.For someone
> interesting, we may transfer the file my mail.crackevil@gmail.com
>
> ps:these experimental packages installed
>
> libdrm2_2.4.4+git+20090205+8b88036-1_i386.deb
> libdrm-dev_2.4.4+git+20090205+8b88036-1_i386.deb
> libdrm-intel1_2.4.4+git+20090205+8b88036-1_i386.deb
> libdrm-nouveau1_2.4.4+git+20090205+8b88036-1_i386.deb
> libgl1-mesa-dev_7.3-1_all.deb
> libgl1-mesa-dri_7.3-1_i386.deb
> libgl1-mesa-glx_7.3-1_i386.deb
> libglu1-mesa_7.3-1_i386.deb
> mesa-common-dev_7.3-1_all.deb
> mesa-utils_7.3-1_i386.deb
> xserver-common_2%3a1.5.99.902-1_all.deb
> xserver-xorg-core_2%3a1.5.99.902-1_i386.deb
> xkb-data_1.5-2_all.deb
>
>
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next parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-27 5:29 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <bug-12785-10286@http.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
2009-02-27 5:29 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-02-27 5:48 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-02-27 6:00 ` 陈世昊
2009-02-27 6:08 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
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