[parisc-linux] stalling system clues + parisc WCHAN hack

[Joel Soete]

Hi Paul,

Paul Bame wrote:
...
> 
> Linux b2000 2.4.18-pa25 #22 Fri May 17 11:04:28 MDT 2002 parisc unknown
> 
>   PID CMD              S WCHAN
>     1 ini              S pipe_poll
>     2 [keventd]        S context_thread
...

>  5368 setiathome -nice R wait_on_buffer
>  5381 ps -eo pid,cmd,s R wait_on_buffer
> 
>         total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
> Mem:  525357056 521830400  3526656        0 70672384 356921344
> Swap: 511696896  5632000 506064896
> MemTotal:       513044 kB
> MemFree:          3444 kB
> MemShared:           0 kB
> Buffers:         69016 kB
> Cached:         347420 kB
> SwapCached:       1136 kB
> Active:         112296 kB
> Inactive:       329744 kB
> HighTotal:           0 kB
> HighFree:            0 kB
> LowTotal:       513044 kB
> LowFree:          3444 kB
> SwapTotal:      499704 kB
> SwapFree:       494204 kB

Another question:
Do you feel normal that your system swap (swap used 5632000) with 512Mb 
of physical memoy?
I also observe this with my b2000 with 256Mb (just installed last week); 
I started to recompile the last cvs kernel and at the begining, top 
shows me mem used 22Mb and swap used 0Mb at the end more 100Mb of swap 
was used?

I do not understand very well: gcc did not cleanup correctly its space, 
  is it a kernel problem in managment of swap space or top showing wrong 
values?

Thanks in advance for info,
Joel