Messages in this thread | | | From | "Valdis Klētnieks" <> | Subject | Re: [regression -next0117] What is kcompactd and why is he eating 100% of my cpu? | Date | Tue, 26 Jan 2021 03:52:16 -0500 |
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On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 19:54:38 +0100, Tibor Bana said:
> I don't know if it still actual, but I am strugling with this problem right > now and searching the internet for solutions. I read the thread and saw that > you are strugling to reproduce the problem, and I can reproduce it almost every > day.
I'm pretty sure that you have a real bug on your hands. Even if your box is very low on memory, kcompactd should eventually figure out it's not making any progress and wait for the situation to change before trying again.
However, I'm also pretty sure that it's a different one than the one we were chasing, because that one never showed up again once all the patches landed in linux-next, some 18 months before 5.9 was released.
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