From: Neil Walker <neil@ep.mine.nu>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] CPU "choking" under high load
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:36:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BAD28C6.408@ep.mine.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201003262047.55200.expendable.0@danielquinn.org>
On 26/03/10 20:47, Daniel Quinn wrote:
> I don't know why it's happening. I've tried various kernel options with no
> change in behaviour. Outside of that though, I don't know what to try.
> Suggestions welcome :-(
>
It sounds very much to me like a lack of physical memory and your
system is resorting to the swap partition. What does free report?
Be lucky,
Neil
http://www.neiljw.net/
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-26 20:47 [gentoo-user] CPU "choking" under high load Daniel Quinn
2010-03-26 20:48 ` Kyle Bader
2010-03-26 21:36 ` Neil Walker [this message]
2010-03-26 22:43 ` Dale
2010-03-26 22:52 ` Paul Hartman
2010-03-26 23:37 ` Johannes Kimmel
2010-03-26 22:50 ` Paul Hartman
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