Bug#647741: linux-image-3.0.0-2-amd64: UI sometimes freezes for several seconds, with a disk access
On 2012-02-21 11:03:11 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> In order to try to find the cause of the problem, I've set the atop
> interval to 1 second. It seems that when the problem occurs, there
> doesn't seem to be a particular activity of the processes (no
> additional RDDSK or WRDSK). Just when the disk becomes busy, atop
> shows that the "slab" value suddenly increases, then the disk
> becomes busy for several seconds with writes only. During this
> time, the "slab" value decreases.
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I forgot... This test was done with a 3.2.0-1-amd64 kernel
(linux-image-3.2.0-1-amd64 3.2.6-1).
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