2.6.0-test4-mm1 - kswap hogs cpu OO takes ages to start!

[warudkar]

Trying out 2.6.0-test4-mm1. Inside KDE, I start OpenOffice.org, Rational Rose and Konsole at a time. All of these take extremely long time to startup. (approx > 5 minutes). Kswapd hogs the CPU all the time.
X becomes unusable till all of them startup, although I can telnet and run top.
Same thing run under 2.4.18 starts up in 3 minutes, X stays usable and kswapd never take more than 2% CPU.


Here a snapshot of Top output when running 2.6.0-test4-mm1:
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  4:24pm  up 21:19,  6 users,  load average: 3.47, 2.04, 1.49
96 processes: 88 sleeping, 8 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 11.3% user, 88.6% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle
Mem:   124632K av,  122664K used,    1968K free,       0K shrd,     160K buff
Swap: 1052248K av,   71256K used,  980992K free                   43540K cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
    8 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW   66.6  0.0   4:59 kswapd0
 2087 wipro     17   0 29576  10M 27408 S     4.6  8.9   0:03 kdeinit
 2044 wipro     17   0  118M  22M  103M D     2.7 18.8   0:04 soffice.bin
 2292 wipro     18   0  3856  912  3716 S     1.8  0.7   0:02 top
 2312 wipro     18   0  3852  912  3716 R     1.8  0.7   0:00 top
  540 wipro     15   0 28988 6640 26672 S     0.9  5.3  10:40 kdeinit
 1254 wipro     15   0 26340 4916 24716 S     0.9  3.9   0:17 kdeinit
    1 root      17   0  1320  268  1288 S     0.0  0.2   0:04 init
    2 root      0K   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 migration/0
    3 root      34  19     0    0     0 SWN   0.0  0.0   0:00 ksoftirqd/0
    4 root       5 -10     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00 events/0
    5 root       5 -10     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:01 kblockd/0
    6 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 pdflush
    7 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 pdflush
    9 root      10 -10     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00 aio/0
   10 root      10 -10     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00 aio_fput/0
   11 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 kseriod
   12 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 kjournald
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