[Bug 367377] Re: High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

2009-06-25 Thread Zack Evans
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 376092 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/376092 Bryce: Yep, I think this is now effectively a dupe, and I'd forgotten this only affected UXA. Thanks, another one off the list! -- High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

[Bug 367377] Re: High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

2009-06-25 Thread Zack Evans
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 376092 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/376092 Bryce: Yep, I think this is now effectively a dupe, and I'd forgotten this only affected EXA. Thanks, another one off the list! -- High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

[Bug 367377] Re: High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

2009-06-23 Thread Bryce Harrington
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 376092 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/376092 This sounds a lot like bug #376092, which I'm about to upload the patch for, along with the patch for bug #360319 (another memory leak). I'm going to dupe this to #376092. (Both of these are actually bugs

[Bug 367377] Re: High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

2009-06-23 Thread Bryce Harrington
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 376092 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/376092 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 376092 [i945] Running Out of Memory with composited managers (UXA bug) -- High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

[Bug 367377] Re: High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

2009-06-23 Thread Zack Evans
Sorry to double-post but just realised I lied. :-) Since the bug was filed against 2.6.28-11 and we've gone around it by going to .30... what we gonna do about a fix for official Jaunty? -- High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367377 You

[Bug 367377] Re: High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

2009-06-23 Thread Zack Evans
Been looking through changelogs for the version Bob Manners and I have been going through... I can see there are several memory leaks that might have been the culprit that have been fixed recently, or that had been fixed in drivers way in advance of what I was running. Bob: your bug, but suggest

[Bug 367377] Re: High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

2009-06-15 Thread Bob Manners
Hi there - just a quick update. I have been running with 2.6.30 for a couple of days now, with a relatively light workload under KDE4. My overall impression is that this problem has either been fixed or that the leak which is probably the root cause of this is at least much slower now! After

Re: [Bug 367377] Re: High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

2009-06-15 Thread Nizamov Shawkat
I am also confident that bug had gone after upgrading to kernel 2.6.30 and using intel video drivers (from x-swat ppa) that default to older acceleration architecture (EXA). -- High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367377 You received this

[Bug 367377] Re: High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

2009-06-12 Thread Mike.lifeguard
2.6.30 was released - give it a try? -- High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367377 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 367377] Re: High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

2009-06-12 Thread Bob Manners
I am just downloading 2.6.30. I will test and post my results in due course. -- High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367377 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 367377] Re: High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

2009-06-12 Thread Rocko
I don't know if this is specifically an intel bug. I sometimes see the same thing occur and I'm using nvidia. It happened again just now: the PC was doing nothing all night, but when I returned to it and pressed a key to stop the screensaver, X had become unresponsive due to disk thrashing. I

[Bug 367377] Re: High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

2009-06-08 Thread Zack Evans
There were lots of changes to this area of DRM in 2.6.30rc7 and rc8 - could be worth trying this kernel and seeing if the problem goes away? If it does I don't think it will be too hard to identify the exact changes which fixed it... -- High load average, disk read, no apparent reason -

[Bug 367377] Re: High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

2009-06-08 Thread Bob Manners
I can confirm that this still occurs with 2.6.20rc7: b...@gecko2:~$ uname -a Linux gecko2 2.6.30-020630rc7-generic #020630rc7 SMP Sun May 24 01:38:23 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux -- High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367377 You received this

[Bug 367377] Re: High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

2009-06-08 Thread Bob Manners
Sorry - I meant 2.6.30-rc7 of course! -- High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367377 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 367377] Re: High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

2009-05-21 Thread Nizamov Shawkat
I also experience the same bug on notebook with i945 chipset with Ubuntu Jaunty. Symptoms are the same - at some point system becomes irresponsive, disk activity is such high that the only option is to power-off the notebook. As I was experiencing it rather frequently I had open consoles with

[Bug 367377] Re: High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

2009-05-21 Thread Chow Loong Jin
I'm confirming this. My restart X cycle happens at approximately once every 5 or 6 hours of usage. The symptoms are exactly as mentioned, but with an addition. /proc/dri/0/gem_objects shows a large number of GEM objects allocated, but the number of GEM objects does not really matter. What

[Bug 367377] Re: High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

2009-05-06 Thread Bryce Harrington
** Description changed: Binary package hint: linux-generic I am not at all sure this is a kernel bug, but I don't know what else to file it against. Perhaps someone who understands the VM subsystem could look at my logs and provide some indication of what may be the culprit here.

[Bug 367377] Re: High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

2009-05-06 Thread Bryce Harrington
** Tags added: high-cpu -- High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367377 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 367377] Re: High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

2009-05-05 Thread VladIonescu
I can confirm this behaviour on both my laptop and my work PC. My PC has 2GB RAM and I have configured a 4GB swap partition. With KDE 4.2, compositing turned off and only a firefox tab htop says 2.7GB of swap are used. That cannot be normal. My RAM is only at 450MB (excluding cached memory).

[Bug 367377] Re: High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

2009-05-05 Thread VladIonescu
In my case restarting the X.org server clears the swap. -- High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367377 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 367377] Re: High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

2009-05-05 Thread Bob Manners
Having done some more investigation I am quite confident that this is a problem with the Intel X-Server: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.6.3-0ubuntu9 When UXA is selected in the xorg.conf as follows: Section Device Identifier Configured Video Device Driver

[Bug 367377] Re: High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

2009-05-05 Thread Bob Manners
Having done some more investigation I am quite confident that this is a problem with the Intel X-Server: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.6.3-0ubuntu9 When UXA is selected in the xorg.conf as follows: Section Device Identifier Configured Video Device Driver

[Bug 367377] Re: High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

2009-05-05 Thread Bob Manners
Changed packaged to xserver-xorg-video-intel. ** Package changed: linux (Ubuntu) = xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) -- High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367377 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 367377] Re: High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

2009-05-01 Thread Bob Manners
Further Followup - Behaviour with Swap Enabled - After posting this bug, I created swap partition on a spare ~1GB disk partition. (Who needs HP Quickplay anyway?) The results were interesting ... I noticed over the course of 48 hours

[Bug 367377] Re: High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

2009-05-01 Thread Bob Manners
One more datapoint - system has been up 1 day almost exactly. Sitting idle in KDE session with just Firefox running: htop gives 621MB used of 2004MB physical Swap sits at 540 / 1027MB used top gives me: top - 19:38:12 up 1 day, 34 min, 1 user, load average: 0.90, 0.50, 0.47 Tasks: 173 total,

[Bug 367377] Re: High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

2009-04-27 Thread Andy Whitcroft
This sounds like a kernel issue and therefore should be against linux rather than -meta. Moving to the appropriate package. ** Package changed: linux-meta (Ubuntu) = linux (Ubuntu) -- High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367377 You

[Bug 367377] Re: High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

2009-04-26 Thread Bob Manners
** Attachment added: 'top' log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25999147/top.log -- High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367377 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 367377] Re: High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

2009-04-26 Thread Bob Manners
** Attachment added: 'vmstat' log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25999157/vmstat.log -- High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367377 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 367377] Re: High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

2009-04-26 Thread Bob Manners
** Attachment added: 'lspci -vv' http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25999192/lspci.log -- High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367377 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 367377] Re: High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11

2009-04-26 Thread Bob Manners
** Attachment added: 'logvmstat' script (stolen from another thread) http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25999208/logvmstat -- High load average, disk read, no apparent reason - 2.6.28-11 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367377 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu