Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:02:54 +1100 | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.10-rc3: kswapd eats CPU on start of memory-eating task |
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Mikhail Ramendik wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > >>- Ask Voluspa to do >> >> echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/swap_token_timeout >> >> on 2.6.10-rc3 and retest. > > > He did, and I did (but I have not sent my report to lkml). In both cases, > screen freezes remained but were now less in duration (up to 10-20 sec). In > mu case I also monitored CPU loading and the big load peaks were there (the > biggest one was in the beginning). > > >>(We still don't know why it chews tons of CPU, do we?) > > > It does! Any way to dig into this? >
I still suspect the thrash token patch even with the swap token timeout at 0. Is it completely disabled at 0 or does it still do something?
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