From: "Per Jessen" <per@computer.org>
To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: 2.4.28 - kswapd excessive cpu usage under heavy IO
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 13:28:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041206122938.D1E078E62F@mail.local.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041206122003.3DFBE7D48D@mail.local.net>
On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 13:20:03 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
> (apologies if this is sent more than once)
> I've found similar incidences in the archives, but none that indicates that a
> solution was found.
> I'm seeing excessive cpu usage by kswapd on a 4way 500MHZ Xeon with 2GB RAM. A
> find in a directory containing perhaps 6-700,000 files makes the box almost
> grind to a halt. In 12days uptime, kswap has used 590:43.82, and during the
> find-exercise usually runs with 90-100% util.
> The file-system is 150GB with JFS117 on a software-RAID5 - not exactly optimal,
> I agree, but reasonably workable.
Correction - this is on 2.4.26, *not* 2.4.28.
/Per
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Per Jessen, Zurich
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