> On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Nix wrote:
>
> > Last night I noticed this: (ps -l output, slightly reformatted for email)
> >
> > 40 0 3 1 -12 -12 0 0 kswapd SW< ? 71224881:53 (kswapd)
> >
> > Now I know my old 8Mb 486 swaps a lot, but that CPU time is ridiculous:
>
> This seems to be a kernel bug.
> [from ps aux]
> root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW<Mar 3 71224874:42 (kswapd)
> [from ps lax]
> 40 0 3 1 -12 -12 0 0 free_area_i SW< ?
> 71224874:42 (kswapd)
>
> > I don't think there are that many minutes in nine days.
>
> There aren't. Is it just coincidence that 71224874 minutes is somewhat
> close to 2^32 seconds?
>
> > This system is running 2.0.34pre2.
>
> My system doing this runs 2.0.33.
>
> Mine is a squid server doing nothing but squid and some ssh sessions in
> screen...and routing lots of traffic...a few GB per day.
>
I don't have such problem yet. I am using that computer as a test
proxy(squid) for 30 users. I am using the kernel from SuSE(2.0.33). I know
that SuSE changed the source slightly.
Linux dom 2.0.33 #2 Sat Jan 10 14:38:49 EST 1998 i586 unknown
(ps aux)
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW< Feb 28 0:00 kswapd
Dominik Weis
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