kswapd kernel 2.4.9

From: Andre Margis (andre@sam.com.br)
Date: Wed Oct 03 2001 - 06:39:20 EST


I'm running kernel 2.4.9 under a DELL 8450 with 8xP-III and 10GB RAM.
Yesterday a run a BIG I/O, and when this process run, my cached goes to 9GB
and the kswapd is using 100% of one cpu after that.

my /proc/meminfo

        total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 1957650432 1946705920 10944512 0 392224768 1218093056
Swap: 1073733632 684032 1073049600
MemTotal: 10300376 kB
MemFree: 10688 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 383032 kB
Cached: 9577652 kB
SwapCached: 500 kB
Active: 3328980 kB
Inact_dirty: 6628180 kB
Inact_clean: 4088 kB
Inact_target: 8 kB
HighTotal: 9568256 kB
HighFree: 3948 kB
LowTotal: 732120 kB
LowFree: 6740 kB
SwapTotal: 1048568 kB
SwapFree: 1047900 kB

This is normal?

Thank's

Andre
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