Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.9-ck1: swap mayhem under UT2004 | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:52:37 -0400 |
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On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 10:03 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > Any ideas? Any more info required? > > I've seen reports of this happening since 2.6.9 _even on mainline_. > Something seems very sick with kswapd where it consumes massive amounts > of cpu. Can you reproduce without any -ck patches? Others have already > done so, but it seems to happen earlier with -ck.
One thing that comes to mind immediately is AM's patch to optimize the swap space layout:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/9/9/254
This is definitely in mainline now, not sure when it went in. Try backing it out.
Lee
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