major problem with linux-2.4.0test10
I've been having a problem with memory since 2.4.0test9...for some reason, shortly after my system boots, my hard drive begins to seek rapidly for no apparent reason, and suddenly about 150MB of my 256MB RAM is filled up with something gtop labels 'Other.' whatever's filling my memory isn't attached
to any process. the one time I managed to get gtop open while the hard
drive was seeking, I noticed that kflushd was using about 98% of my processor (an Athlon 900MHz). I'm running Redhat 7.0 (although I have no idea whether that makes a difference).
regards,
j.d.
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Quoted 8 lines · J.D. Hollis
I've been having a problem with memory since 2.4.0test9...for some reason, shortly after my system boots, my hard drive begins to seek rapidly for no apparent reason, and suddenly about 150MB of my 256MB RAM is filled up with something gtop labels 'Other.' whatever's filling my memory isn't attached
to any process. the one time I managed to get gtop open while the hard
drive was seeking, I noticed that kflushd was using about 98% of my processor (an Athlon 900MHz). I'm running Redhat 7.0 (although I have no idea whether that makes a difference).
It's probably a program called 'sa' that anacron starts up right after boot (on RH 7.0). It's a system accounting program that starts up and scans the entire drive looking for stuff, which fills up cache in RAM.
I generally disable all anacron stuff and remove /etc/cron.??* and the daily/weekly/monthly entries in /etc/crontab, then I run '/etc/rc.d/init.d/crond restart'. That oughta fix it, but you might want to look into the cron scripts individually and selectively remove the lines you don't want. :-)
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Why not just remove the sa lines from /etc/crontab?
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Quoted 31 lines · Byron Stanoszek
Quoted 8 lines · J.D. Hollis
I've been having a problem with memory since 2.4.0test9...for some reason, shortly after my system boots, my hard drive begins to seek rapidly for no apparent reason, and suddenly about 150MB of my 256MB RAM is filled up with something gtop labels 'Other.' whatever's filling my memory isn't attached
to any process. the one time I managed to get gtop open while the hard
drive was seeking, I noticed that kflushd was using about 98% of my processor (an Athlon 900MHz). I'm running Redhat 7.0 (although I have no idea whether that makes a difference).It's probably a program called 'sa' that anacron starts up right after boot (on RH 7.0). It's a system accounting program that starts up and scans the entire drive looking for stuff, which fills up cache in RAM.
I generally disable all anacron stuff and remove /etc/cron.??* and the daily/weekly/monthly entries in
/etc/crontab, then I run '/etc/rc.d/init.d/crondrestart'. That oughta fix it, but you might want to look into the cron scripts individually and selectively remove the lines you don't want. :-)--
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