Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 03:50:24 GMT From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/71968: USB disk triggers swap activity Message-ID: <200410010350.i913oOgL060532@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/71968; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: walter@pelissero.de Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/71968: USB disk triggers swap activity Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:42:17 -0700 --UHN/qo2QbUvPLonB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 01:53:08PM +0200, Walter C. Pelissero wrote: > Sony Vaio PCG-XG9, LaCie 160G USB2 disk with UFS2 filesystem > mounted automatically by amd. > >Description: > When I do a substantial activity on a 160G USB2 disk the > system starts an heavy ATA disk activity that looks like > swapping because, even though there is still 50MB RAM > available, the swap usage jumps up to 14% and then slowly > reaches 17%. Soon, one by one, the programs become > irresponsive and the system grinds to a halt (but the ATA > activity). If I don't try it immediately, ssh from another > node yields a connection timeout. Needless to say the USB > keyboard and mouse die immediately, while I can still use the > trackpad on the laptop. > >How-To-Repeat: > dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/the/usb/filesystem Does the problem persist with 5.3? Does 'top' or 'ps' show any unusual activity? Kris --UHN/qo2QbUvPLonB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBXNIZWry0BWjoQKURAqgBAKDVveWa2qYudlPwPNQTbiqIIUfi9QCgw3GY lMA2MIbhHz7eTtoE3b3we7E= =i8k1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UHN/qo2QbUvPLonB--
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