Re: 2.6.14 kswapd eating too much CPU

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Wed Nov 23 2005 - 15:34:06 EST


On 11/23/05, Jan Kasprzak <kas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> : Jan Kasprzak <kas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> : >
> : > I am at 2.6.15-rc2 now, the problem is still there.
> : > Currently according to top(1), kswapd1 eats >98% CPU for 50 minutes now
> : > and counting.
> :
> : When it's doing this, could you do sysrq-p a few times? The output of that
> : should tell us where the CPU is executing.
>
> Hmm, it does not show anything but the header. Should I enable
> something special in the kernel?
>

CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y
(it's in 'Kernel hacking')


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