Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 18:41:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 18:40:50 -0500 Received: from cx97923-a.phnx3.az.home.com ([24.1.197.194]:17888 "EHLO grok.yi.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 18:40:31 -0500 Message-ID: <3C06C76E.4000106@candelatech.com> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 16:40:30 -0700 From: Ben Greear Organization: Candela Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel Subject: kswapd gone nuts in RH 2.4.9-13 kernel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Just in case anyone is running RH's latest updated kernel, I just noticed that it's kswapd is running at near MAX CPU usage on my just-installed RH 7.2 machine. I'm running about 10Mbps of ethernet traffic on the machine, and a Java GUI and not much else. I guess once again I'll be shipping a bleeding-edge hand-built kernel :P top shows: 3:39pm up 40 min, 5 users, load average: 1.83, 2.16, 2.10 90 processes: 88 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.7% user, 99.2% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle Mem: 253960K av, 249728K used, 4232K free, 900K shrd, 71404K buff Swap: 522104K av, 61764K used, 460340K free 71668K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 5 root 20 0 0 0 0 RW 97.0 0.0 22:57 kswapd 22996 lanforge 9 0 1064 1064 852 S 0.7 0.4 0:02 top 24412 lanforge 13 0 1064 1064 832 R 0.7 0.4 0:00 top 3694 lanforge 9 0 3168 2672 2672 S 0.3 1.0 0:05 magicdev 1234 root 1 -18 4708 4236 3188 S < 0.1 1.6 2:40 btserver 4582 lanforge 9 0 32684 27M 25392 S 0.1 10.9 0:06 java 4665 lanforge 9 0 32684 27M 25392 S 0.1 10.9 0:26 java 22888 lanforge 9 0 4280 4232 3424 S 0.1 1.6 0:00 gnome-terminal 24273 root 9 0 816 800 700 S 0.1 0.3 0:00 in.telnetd 1 root 8 0 516 472 472 S 0.0 0.1 0:04 init 2 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd 3 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kapm-idled 4 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0 6 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kreclaimd 7 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 bdflush 8 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kupdated 9 root -1 -20 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 mdrecoveryd 13 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald 88 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 khubd 243 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald 672 root 9 0 624 572 572 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 syslogd 677 root 9 0 1148 500 500 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 klogd 697 rpc 9 0 584 492 492 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 portmap 725 rpcuser 9 0 764 656 656 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 rpc.statd 837 root 9 0 528 472 472 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 apmd 894 root 9 0 1248 1052 1052 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 sshd 927 root 9 0 1028 912 872 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 xinetd 967 root 9 0 2076 1584 1584 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 sendmail 986 root 9 0 484 444 444 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 gpm 1004 root 8 0 680 616 600 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 crond 1074 xfs 9 0 4008 2184 2184 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 xfs 1110 daemon 9 0 576 508 508 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 atd 1228 root 9 0 1008 836 836 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 run_client_1 1230 root 9 0 1004 836 836 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 run_mgr_0 1237 root 9 0 5940 5156 4380 S 0.0 2.0 0:08 btserver 1250 root 1 -18 784 724 720 S < 0.0 0.2 0:06 gnuserver 1258 root 9 0 1240 988 988 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 login 1259 root 9 0 440 380 380 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 mingetty 1260 root 9 0 440 380 380 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 mingetty -- Ben Greear President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear - 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/