Kernel "dead pauses" since 2.6.5-1.332

[Michael A. Peters]

On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 06:09, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 03:25, Aleksey Nogin wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I am seeing something like this too. The way it looks for me is as if 
> > the hard drive just stops responding - everything that wants disk access 
> > freezes, but everything else keeps working normally. Once in a while the 
> > disk would "unfreeze", I would see a lot of disk activity, and then 
> > another freeze (for a periods varying from a few seconds to couple of 
> > minutes).
> 
> I think we've got a handle on this. On a "low" memory box (128/256mb or
> so), it's easy to reproduce.

Ah-hah - I experience the pauses and I got only 256MB.
Been planning to buy more since I built this box january/03 - just never
got around to it. Never really felt like I absolutely needed more.

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