On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 10:44:28PM +0200, Peter Enderborg wrote:
> This is on a dual Pentium II. I have just made an upgrade to 2.3.99pre6,
>
> but I have seen it for while now. Is this realy the way it should be?
> It's the cp of a big file on ext2 filesystem that causes the kswapd to
> use 77% CPU. But any heavy disk usage gives the same result.
I have the same problem in a single processor machine (AMD K6-2 550, 256MB RAM,
2.3.99pre6)
12:18pm up 44 min, 4 users, load average: 8.37, 6.16, 4.54
72 processes: 66 sleeping, 6 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 1.9% user, 93.9% system, 0.0% nice, 4.3% idle
Mem: 255888K av, 252908K used, 2980K free, 0K shrd, 852K buff
Swap: 259264K av, 368K used, 258896K free 226796K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 RW 0 91.1 0.0 13:41 kswapd
940 root 3 0 496 496 420 R 0 2.8 0.1 6:07 mplex
942 alfi 2 0 856 856 672 R 0 1.2 0.3 0:00 top
3 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.3 0.0 0:00 kflushd
599 root 0 0 296 284 240 R 0 0.3 0.1 0:00 gpm
1 root 0 0 464 464 400 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:00 init
4 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 kupdate
was multiplexing too mpeg streams to a system stream....
bye
Steffen
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