ptfedora3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I have a FC4 machine which hangs frequently.
It does a *lot* of logging from a remote syslog. It can hang at
unpredictable times, but will also usually become unresponsive around the
time when logrotate tries to rotate syslogs. My suspicion is there is
something wrong somewhere between the kernel and syslogd.
I have tried looking at slabtop to see if things are running out of room
in the kernel. I still think this is the case, but can't find any
authoritative source on increasing them to compensate.
Here is a view of my slabtop sorted by percentage used:
Things don't look right to me: there seem to be a lot of things at 100%
but my efforts to increase them by writing new values into /proc/slabinfo
are either wrong or ineffective. Any thoughts?
[root@syslogger ~]# slabtop
Active / Total Objects (% used) : 53671 / 74663 (71.9%)
Active / Total Slabs (% used) : 3335 / 3337 (99.9%)
Active / Total Caches (% used) : 85 / 123 (69.1%)
Active / Total Size (% used) : 9067.80K / 13123.39K (69.1%)
Minimum / Average / Maximum Object : 0.01K / 0.17K / 128.00K
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Looks the same here- I'd never heard of slabtop before, where did you
hear about it? Anyway, I get much the same data you do on my system
(P3/1GHz/256Mb), but it's my regular desktop. I've seen mention of ACPI
issues on this list which may cause lockups, as well as memory problems
(have you run memtest86 on the system?).
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