Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 09 Nov 2001 10:51:20 -0300 | From | Marcus Grando <> | Subject | Re: BUG(?): kswapd eating CPU |
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Hello all,
I have this problems too.
Any sugestions?
Regards Marcus Grando
> I just had a strange case where kswapd started eating up 100% CPU >time. I haven't been able to reproduce it, but it seemed to occur when I >did a "dd bs=4096 </dev/fb0 >/scratch/image" in X while writing a CD (4x) >from the same filesystem--the dd took 10-20 times longer than usual, and >kswapd's run time from ps also pointed to the same time. At the time, >roughly 6MB of real memory was free, but most in-use memory (~800MB) was >cached data; only 3MB or so of swap was used. The system itself seemed to >remain stable, though I rebooted shortly after I discovered the problem. > > System is as follows: (if more info is desired, please contact me >directly at achurch@achurch.org--I'm not subscribed to the list)
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