Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 18:54:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 18:53:51 -0500 Received: from cc361913-a.flrtn1.occa.home.com ([24.0.193.171]:15233 "EHLO mirai.cx") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 18:53:42 -0500 Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 15:53:38 -0800 (PST) From: J Sloan To: Ben Greear cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: kswapd gone nuts in RH 2.4.9-13 kernel In-Reply-To: <3C06C76E.4000106@candelatech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Well, I did notice that the rawhide kernel is now at 2.4.16 - Who knows, it might be worth a shot... cu jjs On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Ben Greear wrote: > 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 > > - 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/