Re: pre7-6: kswapd problem returns

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Sat May 06 2000 - 19:23:00 EDT

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    On Sat, 6 May 2000, Adam J. Richter wrote:

    > On my system running linux-2.3.99-pre7-6 which has been up for
    >almost nine hours, kswapd has accumulated over five and a half hours of
    >CPU time, even though the machine has 512MB of RAM and should not be
    >swapping. Even now, with no running processes on the machine, kswapd
    >is running.

    I pointed out where's the bug a few days ago (in linux-mm). It's because
    the pgdat_list is not NULL terminated. It's one of the thing I fixed in
    classzone-24, try it and your VM problem will disappear.

            ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.3/2.3.99-pre7-pre6/classzone-24.gz

    Andrea

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