Re: kswapd using a lot of CPU

Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
15 Nov 2001 17:36:53 -0500

On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 17:31, Steffen Persvold wrote:
> What the f**k is going on here (RedHat 7.1 kernel-2.4.9-12smp, glibc-2.2.4-19)
> ?
>
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
> 5 root 20 0 0 0 0 RW 78.4 0.0 97:45 kswapd

Upgrade to a newer kernel, 2.4.10 and onward should solve this problem.
The newest kernel is 2.4.14 -- just go for that.

Robert Love

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