* Re: Fwd: 2.4.28 - kswapd excessive cpu usage under heavy IO
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@ 2004-12-06 12:28 ` Per Jessen
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From: Per Jessen @ 2004-12-06 12:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
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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