Re: 2.6.12-rc3-mm2 - kswapd0 keeps running

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sun May 01 2005 - 17:17:09 EST


Damir Perisa <damir.perisa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> i updated from rc2-mm3 to rc3-mm2 and now i observe something strange:
> the cpu is running all the time at 100% because of the kswapd0 that is
> running always and not becomming idle.
>
> after having the computer running for about one hour, top says this about
> kswapd0:
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 155 root 25 0 0 0 0 R 89.6 0.0 38:56.06 kswapd0

Could you type sysrq-P a few times, see if we can work out where it's stuck?

Thanks.
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