On 2012-02-21 11:03:11 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > In order to try to find the cause of the problem, I've set the atop > interval to 1 second. It seems that when the problem occurs, there > doesn't seem to be a particular activity of the processes (no > additional RDDSK or WRDSK). Just when the disk becomes busy, atop > shows that the "slab" value suddenly increases, then the disk > becomes busy for several seconds with writes only. During this > time, the "slab" value decreases. [...]
I forgot... This test was done with a 3.2.0-1-amd64 kernel (linux-image-3.2.0-1-amd64 3.2.6-1). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120221100451.gg7...@xvii.vinc17.org