From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from max.phys.uu.nl (max.phys.uu.nl [131.211.32.73]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA07297 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 10:19:01 -0400 Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 12:11:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Rik van Riel Reply-To: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: Kswapd-problems (?) In-Reply-To: <91F2D41BEDADD1119DCC0060B06D7BD10A0C4F@dserver.fleggaard.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Brian Schau Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu'" , Linux MM List-ID: 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. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Linux memory management tour guide. H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl | | Scouting Vries cubscout leader. http://www.phys.uu.nl/~riel/ | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org