On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 18:01 -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>
> On my IBM X31 laptop, the system entirely locks up when there's a lot of
> disk access, some common situations are:
> - when getting heavily into swap due to a runaway process
> - when running rpm/yum
I agree that the above is a real problem as it occasionally happens to
me and the reboots can be mighty disruptive. It would be *very* helpful
if kernels could provide/enforce enough interactivity to allow users to
kill processes with "runaway disk usage".
And though I have no way to prove it, I think recent (eg. 2.6) kernels
do a slightly worse job in this area than historic ones (eg. 2.4, 2.2).
So are there ways to fix it? And if so, how?
Ed
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