From: Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl>
To: Brian Schau <bsc@fleggaard.dk>
Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu'" <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>,
Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: Kswapd-problems (?)
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 12:11:14 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980703120910.13344A-100000@mirkwood.dummy.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <91F2D41BEDADD1119DCC0060B06D7BD10A0C4F@dserver.fleggaard.dk>
On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Brian Schau wrote:
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RES SHRD STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
> 3 root 4 -12 0 0 0 RW< 99.9 0.0738:01 kswapd
>
> Why does 'kswapd' use so much resources? And why has it used so many
> resources during the night?
This is certainly a rare thing to happen. My best
guess would be that you ran out of virtual
memory and the system tried to go on anyway...
Some output from /bin/free, procinfo and vmstat
plus some info on what type of machine and
workload you have would be useful to determine
the exact cause of this problem.
Rik.
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