[vox-tech] Urgent - Problem in upgradation of RH 7.1 to RH 7. 2 !!

[Peter Jay Salzman]

as you point out, this doesn't really mean anything.  the only
reasonable statement we could make here is that reiserfs, which uses
very complicated caching, aggravates the problem (but that doesn't mean
it is the problem).

upgrade the kernel and i'll bet you don't see the problem again with
reiserfs.  (note- i wouldn't use reiserfs until a debugfs type tool was
written for it.)

pete

begin Roland Minden <rminden@Unilab.com> 
> This may not prove anything, but when I switched to reiserfs the trouble has
> not yet come back. Again this may not prove anything. In addition top showed
> the culprit to be the journal ling system I don't recall the package name
> now.
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Jay Salzman [mailto:p@dirac.org]
> Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 11:12 AM
> To: vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
> Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Urgent - Problem in upgradation of RH 7.1 to RH
> 7. 2 !!
> 
> 
> begin Roland Minden <rminden@Unilab.com> 
> > I have experimented with ext3 and have had some strange troubles I had
> > originally thought were do to VM. Things like 99% CPU usage for no reason.
> 
> this is a buggy implementation of the kernel virtual memory system.  the
> "andrea vm".  it was fixed in 2.4.16, and the patches have been applied
> to the 2.5.* series.
> 
> > had this with Mandrake and SuSE both using ext3. IMHO I would stay away
> from
> > it on any production machine. 
>  
> *definitely* not ext3's fault.
> 
> however, i agree here.  i'm waiting myself until 2.5.2 or 2.5.3.  just
> to get some of the really nasty/obvious bugs out of the way.
> 
> pete
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