https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=340143#c6
--- Comment #6 from Lenz Grimmer 2007-11-28 04:32:31 MST ---
It happened again this morning - returning to my desk which I left 6 hours
before in a working state, the system again was very unresponsive and the hard
disk was rattling as mad.
I managed to capture some stats before rebooting it:
lenz@metis:~> date
Wed Nov 28 10:00:59 CET 2007
lenz@metis:~> uptime
10:01am up 2 days 0:11, 7 users, load average: 8.16, 6.54, 4.97
lenz@metis:~> free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1035332 664756 370576 0 25200 103252
-/+ buffers/cache: 536304 499028
Swap: 1253028 777676 475352
lenz@metis:~> cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 1035332 kB
MemFree: 514212 kB
Buffers: 18372 kB
Cached: 67852 kB
SwapCached: 100220 kB
Active: 433092 kB
Inactive: 39948 kB
HighTotal: 130368 kB
HighFree: 11964 kB
LowTotal: 904964 kB
LowFree: 502248 kB
SwapTotal: 1253028 kB
SwapFree: 476124 kB
Dirty: 25136 kB
Writeback: 620 kB
AnonPages: 380552 kB
Mapped: 44084 kB
Slab: 24052 kB
SReclaimable: 7976 kB
SUnreclaim: 16076 kB
PageTables: 4472 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 1770692 kB
Committed_AS: 1731800 kB
VmallocTotal: 114680 kB
VmallocUsed: 24568 kB
VmallocChunk: 88568 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
Hugepagesize: 4096 kB
lenz@metis:~> cat /proc/vmstat
nr_free_pages 128481
nr_inactive 9272
nr_active 109029
nr_anon_pages 95354
nr_mapped 11057
nr_file_pages 46490
nr_dirty 5699
nr_writeback 159
nr_slab_reclaimable 1994
nr_slab_unreclaimable 4009
nr_page_table_pages 1118
nr_unstable 0
nr_bounce 0
nr_vmscan_write 1888108
pgpgin 96418508
pgpgout 45637844
pswpin 2774246
pswpout 1125860
pgalloc_dma 851875
pgalloc_normal 87607894
pgalloc_high 11340630
pgfree 99929041
pgactivate 17272483
pgdeactivate 16874995
pgfault 108709328
pgmajfault 1059067
pgrefill_dma 2592619
pgrefill_normal 380007871
pgrefill_high 128076759
pgsteal_dma 354571
pgsteal_normal 28255238
pgsteal_high 2627230
pgscan_kswapd_dma 706840
pgscan_kswapd_normal 38108000
pgscan_kswapd_high 4184311
pgscan_direct_dma 50950
pgscan_direct_normal 2046397
pgscan_direct_high 131039
pginodesteal 1971
slabs_scanned 16685952
kswapd_steal 29692461
kswapd_inodesteal 231462
pageoutrun 468658
allocstall 22220
pgrotated 1566095
lenz@metis:~> cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
0
At this point I terminated a number of running apps (openoffice, firefox,
thunderbird), to free up memory.
lenz@metis:~> uptime
10:13am up 2 days 0:23, 4 users, load average: 8.65, 7.53, 6.21
lenz@metis:~> free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1035332 352576 682756 0 6376 76444
-/+ buffers/cache: 269756 765576
Swap: 1253028 350440 902588
lenz@metis:~> cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 1035332 kB
MemFree: 681840 kB
Buffers: 8584 kB
Cached: 72404 kB
SwapCached: 61036 kB
Active: 292924 kB
Inactive: 14960 kB
HighTotal: 130368 kB
HighFree: 260 kB
LowTotal: 904964 kB
LowFree: 681580 kB
SwapTotal: 1253028 kB
SwapFree: 902624 kB
Dirty: 2628 kB
Writeback: 448 kB
AnonPages: 225440 kB
Mapped: 54392 kB
Slab: 23200 kB
SReclaimable: 7364 kB
SUnreclaim: 15836 kB
PageTables: 3692 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 1770692 kB
Committed_AS: 1088488 kB
VmallocTotal: 114680 kB
VmallocUsed: 24568 kB
VmallocChunk: 88568 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
Hugepagesize: 4096 kB
lenz@metis:~> cat /proc/vmstat
nr_free_pages 171792
nr_inactive 3542
nr_active 72030
nr_anon_pages 55568
nr_mapped 13418
nr_file_pages 35014
nr_dirty 432
nr_writeback 75
nr_slab_reclaimable 1841
nr_slab_unreclaimable 3964
nr_page_table_pages 915
nr_unstable 0
nr_bounce 0
nr_vmscan_write 1935933
pgpgin 97455380
pgpgout 45834820
pswpin 2850118
pswpout 1128092
pgalloc_dma 851875
pgalloc_normal 87812685
pgalloc_high 11548807
pgfree 100385240
pgactivate 17871993
pgdeactivate 17518347
pgfault 108993634
pgmajfault 1088574
pgrefill_dma 2593158
pgrefill_normal 403564383
pgrefill_high 136467021
pgsteal_dma 354572
pgsteal_normal 28388247
pgsteal_high 2763581
pgscan_kswapd_dma 707914
pgscan_kswapd_normal 38687360
pgscan_kswapd_high 4502615
pgscan_direct_dma 50950
pgscan_direct_normal 2046397
pgscan_direct_high 131039
pginodesteal 1971
slabs_scanned 16719872
kswapd_steal 29961822
kswapd_inodesteal 231462
pageoutrun 472969
allocstall 22220
pgrotated 1598360
lenz@metis:~> vmstat 3
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
1 7 350404 688560 7412 68808 60 24 60 15 112 219 9 2 76 13
3 4 350404 687660 7760 69812 180 0 1237 679 371 875 5 5 0 89
1 6 350404 688420 7792 68956 119 0 1168 587 345 835 13 5 0 82
0 9 350404 689644 6860 69556 364 0 1372 159 351 988 6 4 0 91
0 6 350404 689148 6448 69876 271 0 1424 127 368 684 7 4 0 90
2 7 350404 689328 6336 70584 145 0 1275 39 313 651 5 4 0 91
0 4 350404 690612 6136 68820 457 0 1368 164 394 756 8 3 0 89
0 5 350404 689452 5872 70292 204 0 1599 35 331 590 7 2 0 91
2 4 350404 688496 6116 70448 296 0 1391 79 394 1780 11 4 0 86
2 4 350404 685608 8216 70716 309 0 2181 41 404 917 6 4 0 90
1 6 350404 683164 8868 71568 463 0 1389 567 377 1065 10 4 0 86
1 6 350404 682280 7948 71764 663 0 1579 729 445 861 9 5 0 86
0 8 350404 685556 6116 70716 324 0 1353 736 418 872 9 5 0 87
1 5 350360 684536 6124 71276 525 0 1273 97 367 772 11 2 0 87
0 8 350360 683780 5908 71736 499 0 1331 77 376 681 10 5 0 85
0 4 350300 682348 6052 73180 175 0 1652 67 335 617 6 5 0 89
0 5 350300 681396 5896 73252 517 0 1828 43 386 810 7 6 0 87
0 5 350268 681272 5992 72996 380 0 1423 136 349 634 7 3 0 90
1 4 342204 688196 5816 73300 207 0 1109 60 327 611 6 3 0 91
0 3 342204 690740 6024 70100 433 0 813 141 334 764 9 2 0 89
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