(2.4.9)kswapd goes haywire

[Matthias Schniedermeyer]

Hi

I have a Dual PIII 933 on a Serverworks HE-SL Chipset Mainboard with 3GB
of RAM. 

I don't have any swap configured and every now and then kswapd goes
haywire and eats the performace of a whole processor (99.9% in top)

I like murphy. Just a second ago kswapd went to 0.0 %. But as you can see
in my uptime and the processtime of kswapd it was haywire for nearly from
the beginning.

-- top --
 11:32am  up 10:19,  7 users,  load average: 0.16, 0.98, 1.09
108 processes: 107 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU0 states:  1.2% user,  0.3% system,  0.0% nice, 97.4% idle
CPU1 states:  0.0% user,  0.1% system,  0.0% nice, 99.4% idle
Mem:  3090704K av, 2404600K used,  686104K free,       0K shrd,  139676K
buff
Swap:       0K av,       0K used,       0K free                 2089512K
cached

    5 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0 597:58 kswapd
-- End --

Kernel is 2.4.9 Vanilla

If more information is needed i will provide them.

Bis denn

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