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Subject: vmstat still stalls (Re: more weird bugs with mmap-ing via NFS)
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в╕второк 21 березень 2006 20:09, Matthew Dillon Ви написали:
>     'vmstat 1' while the program is running would tell us if VM faults
>     are creating an issue.

This problem -- vmstat and `systat -vm' occasionally stalling the entire 
system -- did not go away, it just became less frequent and severe.

What is vmstat doing, that -- under heavy reading *in* of VN pages -- could 
freeze the entire system for a minute or so?

	-mi