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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:38:20 +0100 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com> To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>, Bob Copeland <me@...copeland.com> Subject: Re: git pull on linux-next makes my system crawl to its knees and beg for mercy On Friday 18 December 2009 06:26:29 pm Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > on my kernel logs. Bewildered with this issue I set out to prove to > myself this issue was not a 2.6.32 issue and booted other kernels, > including Ubuntu's distro kernel on 2.6.31 and then later my own built > fresh 2.6.27.41 kernel. The issue was reproducible on all three > kernels! > > This lead me to believe this was a system / hard drive issue and > embraced myself for a system fix. I yet needed to prove this was Just some hints for ruling out the system / hard drive problem. smartctl -a /dev/sdx is your friend for checking your disk (keep an eye on anything suspicious like re-allocated sector count going up etc.) It could be also fs related issue that shows up only under specific conditions (i.e. almost full partition -- some file-systems starts to crawl when the amount of available free space gets low). HTH -- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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