jerome lacoste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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?
10-20 lines of `vmstat 1' output while it's happening would help. If lots of system time is being consumed then the next step is to generate a kernel profile - Documentation/basic_profiling.txt - 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/
