From: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, kanoj@netxen.com
Subject: Re: kswapd busy but not swapping
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 20:42:33 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0805212040390.4890@sheep.housecafe.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1211361217.6463.61.camel@lappy.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On Wed, 21 May 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> It could have been busy reclaiming pagecache.
> kswapd is the generic reclaim thread - paging anonymous memory to the
> swap is but one form thereof.
Hm, OK, so it's "OK" I guess. It stopped after a few hours anyway, I think
it was related to the disk IO (dd if=/dev/hdd of=/dev/null)....
Thanks for replying,
Christian.
--
BOFH excuse #75:
There isn't any problem
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-20 23:04 Christian Kujau
2008-05-21 9:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-05-21 18:42 ` Christian Kujau [this message]
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