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Subject: Re: kswapd is CPU-hungry (kernel 2.4.2-2)
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: D Campbell <dcampbel_slo@yahoo.com>
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On Sat, 2001-10-20 at 22:34, D Campbell wrote:
> after searching the archives i'm still a bit concerned
> about the CPU usage of kswapd on a machine with lots of memory.

a lot of VM work has been done, in particular to solve your problem. 
Two solutions have emerged, one in Alan's tree and one in Linus's.

I suggest you try one (or -- even better -- both).  I would be surprised
if your problem wasn't fixed.  The newest release in Alan's tree is
2.4.12-ac3 and it is running great here.  Linus has released a
2.4.13-pre5.

	Robert Love

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