From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261234AbULTID0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Dec 2004 03:03:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261243AbULTIC2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Dec 2004 03:02:28 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:35208 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261490AbULTHNS (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Dec 2004 02:13:18 -0500 Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 23:12:50 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: lista4@comhem.se Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, mr@ramendik.ru, kernel@kolivas.org, riel@redhat.com Subject: Re: 2.6.10-rc3: kswapd eats CPU on start of memory-eating task Message-Id: <20041219231250.457deb12.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1329986.1103525472726.JavaMail.tomcat@pne-ps1-sn1> References: <1329986.1103525472726.JavaMail.tomcat@pne-ps1-sn1> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Voluspa wrote: > > Would be nice though if someone else could verify... Well I'd love to, but afaik the only workloads which we currently know of involve complex userspace apps which I have no experience running. Did anyone come up with a simple step-by-step procedure for reproducing the problem? It would be good if someone could do this, because I don't think we understand the root cause yet?