Re: Linux 2.6.4 including wolk 2.3 and problems with a process called pdflush

Marc-Christian Petersen <[email protected]> Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:18:38 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.wolk.devel
Organization Working Overloaded Linux Kernel
Message-ID <200403311118.38695@WOLK>
On Monday 29 March 2004 21:15, Andreas Haase wrote:

Hi Andreas,

> Today, as I came home, my computer was really slow, load was above 6 and
> there was a process running called pdflush. After looking into the source
> tree I guess it has something to do with memory management, but thats
> all I know :-)

hmm, did you use some dm-crypto stuff or similar?

> Before rebooting my computer I looked for entries in the log files but
> there seemed to be nothing regarding this problem. During the day the
> computer didn't have to do something special. That means, nothing that he
> hasn't done many times before without any problems.
> I attached my .config as gzipped file. Is there anything a can do to avoid
> this problem in future?

please try:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcp/tmp/linux-2.6.4-wolk2.4-pre3.patch.gz

though it does not have grsec2 addon in yet.

ciao, Marc


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