Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263278AbVBDK3M (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2005 05:29:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263556AbVBDK27 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2005 05:28:59 -0500 Received: from web51608.mail.yahoo.com ([206.190.38.213]:39099 "HELO web51608.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263424AbVBDK0i (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2005 05:26:38 -0500 Message-ID: <20050204102637.94143.qmail@web51608.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:26:37 +0100 (CET) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Terje=20F=E5berg?= Subject: Re: 2.6.10: kswapd spins like crazy To: Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton Cc: terje_fb@yahoo.no, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org In-Reply-To: <4202CDBF.9070304@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 872 Lines: 27 Nick Piggin skrev: > No none yet, which is what we should get to the > bottom of. I must be overlooking something, but the > only ways I can see should be due to transient > conditions like page locked or under writeback. > laptop_mode? > > Terje, what is /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode set to? 0. I didn't touch any vm-specific options at all. I just rebooted with your patch. I can _not_ reproduce the problem until now. So far so good. But yesterday I couldn't reproduce it straightaway either. I'll continue to do the same things I did yesterday before kswapd started to spin. Regards, Terje - 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/