Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261207AbVEAWMr (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 May 2005 18:12:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261190AbVEAWKL (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 May 2005 18:10:11 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:37577 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262691AbVEAWHF (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 May 2005 18:07:05 -0400 Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 15:06:24 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Damir Perisa Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.12-rc3-mm2 - kswapd0 keeps running Message-Id: <20050501150624.7696fc31.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200505011707.35461.damir.perisa@solnet.ch> References: <20050430164303.6538f47c.akpm@osdl.org> <200505011707.35461.damir.perisa@solnet.ch> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-vine-linux-gnu) 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: 810 Lines: 20 Damir Perisa wrote: > > i updated from rc2-mm3 to rc3-mm2 and now i observe something strange: > the cpu is running all the time at 100% because of the kswapd0 that is > running always and not becomming idle. > > after having the computer running for about one hour, top says this about > kswapd0: > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 155 root 25 0 0 0 0 R 89.6 0.0 38:56.06 kswapd0 Could you type sysrq-P a few times, see if we can work out where it's stuck? Thanks. - 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/