Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030274AbVKWAff (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2005 19:35:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030276AbVKWAff (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2005 19:35:35 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:46033 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030274AbVKWAfe (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2005 19:35:34 -0500 Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:35:50 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Jan Kasprzak Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.14 kswapd eating too much CPU Message-Id: <20051122163550.160e4395.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20051122125959.GR16080@fi.muni.cz> References: <20051122125959.GR16080@fi.muni.cz> 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: 711 Lines: 21 Jan Kasprzak wrote: > > I have noticed that on my system kswapd eats too much CPU time every two > hours or so. This started when I upgraded this server to 2.6.14.2 (was 2.6.13.2 > before), and added another 4 GB of memory (to the total of 8GB). Next time it happens, please gather some memory info (while it's happening): cat /proc/meminfo cat /proc/vmstat cat /proc/slabinfo dmesg -c > /dev/null echo m > /proc/sysrq-trigger dmesg 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/