Re: kswapd busy but not swapping

[Christian Kujau]

On Wed, 21 May 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> It could have been busy reclaiming pagecache.
> kswapd is the generic reclaim thread - paging anonymous memory to the
> swap is but one form thereof.

Hm, OK, so it's "OK" I guess. It stopped after a few hours anyway, I think 
it was related to the disk IO (dd if=/dev/hdd of=/dev/null)....

Thanks for replying,
Christian.
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