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SubjectRe: 2.6.10-rc3: kswapd eats CPU on start of memory-eating task
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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