hald causing stutters
Paul W. Frields
stickster at gmail.com
Thu Mar 10 12:26:00 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 23:12 +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> > > > Watching my CPU use, I get a spike every 5 seconds (a cheap one thousand
> > > > and one, two thousand and two quess).
[...snip...]
> I don't know what you would define as crippled, but I'm on a 4 day old
> Dell Inspiron 8600 with a 2GHz processor, 768MB Ram.
>
> Interestingly, and this may have nothing to do with it, but even though
> I have a 780MB swap partition and fstab seems to have picked it up, it
> doesn't seem to be 'enabled'. I mention this because I've heard that
> the kernel likes to have 'some' swap space.
>
> fdisk /dev/hda shows:
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 1 6 48163+ de Dell Utility
> /dev/hda2 7 372 2939895 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda3 373 715 2755147+ db CP/M / CTOS / ...
> /dev/hda4 716 7296 52861882+ 5 Extended
> /dev/hda5 * 716 725 80293+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda6 726 1745 8193118+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda7 1746 1843 787153+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/hda8 1844 5158 26627706 83 Linux
>
> less /etc/fstab shows:
>
> # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
> LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
> LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
> none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
> LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
> LABEL=SWAP-hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
>
> less /proc/meminfo shows
>
> MemTotal: 774344 kB
> MemFree: 11500 kB
> Buffers: 26664 kB
> Cached: 255784 kB
> SwapCached: 0 kB
> Active: 381484 kB
> Inactive: 166756 kB
> HighTotal: 0 kB
> HighFree: 0 kB
> LowTotal: 774344 kB
> LowFree: 11500 kB
> SwapTotal: 0 kB
> SwapFree: 0 kB
> Dirty: 0 kB
> Writeback: 0 kB
> Mapped: 324336 kB
> Slab: 201824 kB
> CommitLimit: 387172 kB
> Committed_AS: 998888 kB
> PageTables: 4052 kB
> VmallocTotal: 245752 kB
> VmallocUsed: 3332 kB
> VmallocChunk: 242204 kB
> HugePages_Total: 0
> HugePages_Free: 0
> Hugepagesize: 4096 kB
I may be out of touch since I'm not using a rawhide kernel, but I don't
believe swap space supports an e2label, and would be surprised if that
has changed. Try changing your /etc/fstab like so:
/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
Maybe someone more knowledgeable could point out whether this
discrepancy would result in the symptoms you're observing.
--
Paul W. Frields, RHCE
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