http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544886 Summary: preload_prepare eating all memory Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Factory Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: dominique.leuenberger@tmf-group.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Community User this morning, started up my system, based on 11.2M8. After a few minutes, the system became very, but really very slow. top revealed the bad process to misbehave to be prepare_preload, which was, at the time of 9 minutes uptime, already consuming 4GB of memory (on a 4GB system). dle3ams@3120-2914:~> top -1 top - 08:32:16 up 9 min, 4 users, load average: 7.03, 6.11, 2.97 Tasks: 182 total, 2 running, 180 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 33.7%us, 9.8%sy, 6.5%ni, 9.4%id, 39.8%wa, 0.5%hi, 0.4%si, 0.0%st Mem: 4054564k total, 4024748k used, 29816k free, 752k buffers Swap: 4200956k total, 2966716k used, 1234240k free, 83232k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1886 root 20 0 240m 1748 684 S 92 0.0 4:46.85 novfsd 9344 root 30 10 6171m 3.5g 532 R 27 91.6 1:24.21 prepare_preload 32 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 10 0.0 0:06.73 kswapd0 2569 dle3ams 20 0 231m 11m 8328 S 2 0.3 0:25.80 compiz 8025 dle3ams 20 0 8740 1132 772 R 2 0.0 0:00.01 top 1 root 20 0 8072 396 372 S 0 0.0 0:00.92 init 2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 kthreadd 3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.21 ksoftirqd/0 5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0 6 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1 7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.08 ksoftirqd/1 8 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/1 9 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 events/0 Killing prepare_preload almost instantly brought the system back in a usable state and the memory was released. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.