Re: kswapd eats the cpu without swap

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, BERECZ Szabolcs wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> kernel is 2.4.7-ac3 with the used-once patch.

> I have 160M of ram, and I don't use swap at all, but some minutes before
> kswapd was eating lot's of cpu (98-100%). the system did not responded for
> some 10 seconds, then it worked for some seconds, then it did not responded
> again, until I did a swapon. after adding the swap to the system, it
> swapped out 148k then everything was ok. kswapd still eat some of the cpu
> (0.5% of a k6-2/450). then swapoff, and everything is OK, again.

Does the problem happen only with the used-once patch ? 

If it also happens without the used-once patch, can you reproduce the
problem with 2.4.6 ? 

Thanks