Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 07:41:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 07:41:13 -0400 Received: from [200.248.92.2] ([200.248.92.2]:18195 "EHLO inter.lojasrenner.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 07:41:00 -0400 Message-Id: <200110031143.IAA16823@inter.lojasrenner.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Andre Margis Organization: SAM Informatica Ltda To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: kswapd kernel 2.4.9 Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 08:39:20 -0300 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I'm running kernel 2.4.9 under a DELL 8450 with 8xP-III and 10GB RAM. Yesterday a run a BIG I/O, and when this process run, my cached goes to 9GB and the kswapd is using 100% of one cpu after that. my /proc/meminfo total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 1957650432 1946705920 10944512 0 392224768 1218093056 Swap: 1073733632 684032 1073049600 MemTotal: 10300376 kB MemFree: 10688 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 383032 kB Cached: 9577652 kB SwapCached: 500 kB Active: 3328980 kB Inact_dirty: 6628180 kB Inact_clean: 4088 kB Inact_target: 8 kB HighTotal: 9568256 kB HighFree: 3948 kB LowTotal: 732120 kB LowFree: 6740 kB SwapTotal: 1048568 kB SwapFree: 1047900 kB This is normal? Thank's Andre - 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/