Re: 2.6.14 kswapd eating too much CPU

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Nov 22 2005 - 19:35:51 EST


Jan Kasprzak <kas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I have noticed that on my system kswapd eats too much CPU time every two
> hours or so. This started when I upgraded this server to 2.6.14.2 (was 2.6.13.2
> before), and added another 4 GB of memory (to the total of 8GB).

Next time it happens, please gather some memory info (while it's happening):

cat /proc/meminfo
cat /proc/vmstat
cat /proc/slabinfo
dmesg -c > /dev/null
echo m > /proc/sysrq-trigger
dmesg

Thanks.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/