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SubjectRe: kswapd continuously active
On Sat, Jan 23 2010, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> with 2.6.32.2 on sparc64 I am seeing that there is a sync(1) process
> busy in D state, with the following trace:
>
> sync D 000000000079299c 7552 4851 1 0x208061101000004
> Call Trace:
> [000000000053ca58] bdi_sched_wait+0xc/0x1c
> [000000000079299c] __wait_on_bit+0x58/0xb8
> [0000000000792a5c] out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x60/0x74
> [000000000053ca3c] bdi_sync_writeback+0x6c/0x7c
> [000000000053ca78] sync_inodes_sb+0x10/0xfc
> [0000000000540dd0] __sync_filesystem+0x50/0x88
> [0000000000540ec8] sync_filesystems+0xc0/0x124
> [0000000000540f80] sys_sync+0x1c/0x48
> [0000000000406294] linux_sparc_syscall+0x34/0x44
>
> kswapd is also active all the time, writing something to disk - LED is
> blinking, and that's been going on for over half an hour despite the box
> being not busy. How do I see what kswapd is still flushing to disk? Even
> if all RAM (8 GB) was filled with dirty data, syncing it out would not
> take that long - that is to say, the sync process should have long
> exited.

That doesn't sound good. What does /proc/meminfo say? What file systems
are you using?

--
Jens Axboe



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