Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264931AbUFAKZS (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2004 06:25:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264974AbUFAKZS (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2004 06:25:18 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:22415 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264931AbUFAKZP (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2004 06:25:15 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 03:24:48 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Tim Connors Cc: Buddy Lumpkin , "'John Bradford'" , "'Michael Brennan'" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, riel@redhat.com Subject: Re: why swap at all? Message-ID: <20040601102448.GL2093@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Tim Connors , Buddy Lumpkin , 'John Bradford' , 'Michael Brennan' , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, riel@redhat.com References: <200405312029.i4VKTCZ0000596@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1009 Lines: 21 On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 08:13:59PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > Incidentally, what happens when kswapd becomes a zombie? I've seen > this a few times, and I am currently posting on a machine that has > been up for 15 days, and which oopsed 10 or so days ago (something to > do with nfs, but don't worry about that - the machine is running > 2.4.20, and is not exactly up-to-date), killing kswapd. > But I don't notice anything at all different about how the system is > behaving. However, I haven't been doing much more than running emacs > and mozilla recently - I haven't been running my visualisation > software that typically stresses the VM beyond usefullness. Check your syslog for oopsen. That's the only known reason for kswapd to become a zombie. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/