Bug 101455 – Upgrade to 2.4.20-19.8 kernel causes swap thrashing

Bug 101455 - Upgrade to 2.4.20-19.8 kernel causes swap thrashing

Summary:	Upgrade to 2.4.20-19.8 kernel causes swap thrashing

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version:	8.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact:	Brian Brock
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Reported:	2003-08-01 09:57 EDT by Mitch Pirtle
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:56 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2004-09-30 11:41:23 EDT
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Description Mitch Pirtle 2003-08-01 09:57:56 EDT

Description of problem:
I installed RH8.0 on my laptop (IBM ThinkPad T30), and everything was fine. 
Then I upgraded the kernel to 2.4.20-19.8, as per up2date.  Now when I boot into
the 2.4.20-19.8 kernel, 'vmstat 1' reports constant si and so, despite having
plenty of ram...

Rebooting into the old 2.4.18-4 kernel makes it go away.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.4.20-19.8

How reproducible:
Guaranteed, tested over two days and too durn many reboots.  :^/

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get a TP T30
2. Slap RH8 on it
3. Run up2date, do the kernel mambo
4. Sing "Anticipation..."
    
Actual results:
A laptop that is not manageable due to pitiful performance, and I'm easy to
please (living on a dual PIII-450 MHz at home)...

Expected results:
Upgraded kernel should fix things, not break them.

Additional info:
I already lost plenty of time thinking it was RPM or apt4rpm related, now it is
quite clear that it is a kernel/swap issue.

Comment 1 Bugzilla owner 2004-09-30 11:41:23 EDT

Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of
the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem
persists.

The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, 
and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in
the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/

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