Re: kswapd

Jon Lewis (jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net)
Sat, 7 Mar 1998 00:32:34 -0500 (EST)


On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Petri Kaukasoina wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 05, 1998 at 12:48:36AM -0500, Jon Lewis wrote:
> >
> > Speaking of kswapd...anyone ever seen kswapd eat LOTS of CPU time?
> > Today, or Squid server started acting funny (atually, it just stopped
> > processing requests even though it was running and eating fds) and the
> > only other odd thing I noticed was:
> >
> > root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW<Mar 3 71224874:27 (kswapd)
> >
> > The system's only been up 1 day. Is the kernel (2.0.33) confused?
>
> I saw something similar with kflushd in 2.0.28 more than a year ago (note
> that my cpu time was about the same as yours):
>
> > Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 15:34:56 +0200 (EET)
> >
> > USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
> > root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Jan 14 71224874:23 (kflushd)
> >
> > Kernel 2.0.28, 486/66, IDE, ext2, VLB, 16 M RAM, 3c509b. IP-firewall. Xfree.

That's really weird. For 2 totally different systems to do the same thing
like this, hardware problems seems unlikely.

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