David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > After recently upgrading a build machine to 2.6.16, we started > seeing 10-50s pauses where the machine would appear to hang. This sounds like the recent thread "Avoid excessive time spend on concurrent slab shrinking" over on linux-mm. Have you read through that? http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&r=1&b=200603&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&r=3&b=200604&w=2 It ended up somewaht inconclusive, but it looks like we do have a bit of a problem, but it got exacerbated by an XFS slowness. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
