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Subject: Re: kswapd using a lot of CPU
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Steffen Persvold <sp@scali.no>
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On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 17:31, Steffen Persvold wrote:
> What the f**k is going on here (RedHat 7.1 kernel-2.4.9-12smp, glibc-2.2.4-19)
> ?
>
>   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
>     5 root      20   0     0    0     0 RW   78.4  0.0  97:45 kswapd

Upgrade to a newer kernel, 2.4.10 and onward should solve this problem. 
The newest kernel is 2.4.14 -- just go for that.

	Robert Love

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