Re: kswapd eats the cpu without swap

BERECZ Szabolcs (szabi@inf.elte.hu)
Thu, 2 Aug 2001 22:47:08 +0200 (CEST)


On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Peter [iso-8859-1] Wächtler wrote:

> In a former message you wrote:
> "I have 160M of ram, and I don't use swap at all,"
>
> Then you meant: no single page was swapped out?

yes. I don't attach any swap file to the system.

> I thought you was observing the same as me:
>
> when the system runs low on memory (on a 64MB setop box like device
> with _no_ swap partition/file), the harddisk gets very active and
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
there was _no_ harddisk activity.
and the size of the buffer cache was 19MB.

the bug is reproducable, but I don't know how to do that :/
it showed up 3 times.

Bye,
Szabi

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