Hi, I am on a Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop with 512 M and 1G disk cache. I usually have at least 4 big applications running simultaneously: a Java IDE, firefox, firefox and X. All that under the Gnome desktop.
I've sometimes seen periods where my laptop goes kind of nuts. While the cpu is still at 0%, the workload goes to 100% (as shown in the gnome process monitor) (I haven't checked in other means, e.g. top or /proc info as my machine is unusable). But with my latest upgrade to 2.6.12 from 2.6.10, the hanging happens much more often. It lasts for over 30 seconds. Could this hanging be related to swapping? Are there any VM regression lately that would make a kernel less appropriate for desktop use? How can I investigate that further? Thanks > cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 516220 kB MemFree: 17720 kB Buffers: 9412 kB Cached: 67404 kB SwapCached: 149584 kB Active: 423072 kB Inactive: 37860 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 516220 kB LowFree: 17720 kB SwapTotal: 976712 kB SwapFree: 487432 kB Dirty: 520 kB Writeback: 0 kB Mapped: 405256 kB Slab: 22600 kB CommitLimit: 1234820 kB Committed_AS: 1793068 kB PageTables: 3564 kB VmallocTotal: 507896 kB VmallocUsed: 26472 kB VmallocChunk: 481268 kB > fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 116280 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 19376 9765472+ 7 HPFS/NTFS Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda2 19377 116280 48839616 5 Extended Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda5 19377 21314 976720+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda6 21315 29064 3905968+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 29065 36814 3905968+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 36815 116280 40050832+ 83 Linux expresso:/home/jerome/Dev/CruiseControl/cruisecontrol# - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/