Re: 2.4.13 (SMP): kswapd working furiously, to no effect

Les Schaffer (schaffer@optonline.net)
Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:01:10 -0500


> Please try the newest .14-pre.

will run pre6 all day today and then post results in the evening when
the problems usually happen.

however, i am pushing on it now, several Matlab (4) and Netscape (10)
and xemacs (17) sessions open, and kswapd seems very quiet and system
is very responsive, so things look very good.

les

08:50:24 up 16 min, 2 users, load average: 0.44, 0.37, 0.23
179 processes: 178 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 1.2% user, 6.2% system, 0.0% nice, 92.6% idle
Mem: 513920K total, 510980K used, 2940K free, 2892K buffers
Swap: 506036K total, 4140K used, 501896K free, 93564K cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
300 root 6 -10 232M 56M 6164 S < 1.3 11.1 0:21 XFree86
10036 godzilla 13 5 44668 42M 9388 S N 0.0 8.4 0:04 matlab
10037 godzilla 12 5 44668 42M 9388 S N 0.0 8.4 0:00 matlab
10038 godzilla 15 9 44668 42M 9388 S N 0.0 8.4 0:00 matlab
10039 godzilla 15 10 44668 42M 9388 S N 0.0 8.4 0:00 matlab
10040 godzilla 13 5 44668 42M 9388 S N 0.0 8.4 0:00 matlab
10041 godzilla 13 5 44668 42M 9388 S N 0.0 8.4 0:01 matlab
10042 godzilla 13 5 44668 42M 9388 S N 0.0 8.4 0:00 matlab
10043 godzilla 13 5 44668 42M 9388 S N 0.0 8.4 0:00 matlab
10045 godzilla 13 5 44668 42M 9388 S N 0.0 8.4 0:00 matlab
10046 godzilla 13 5 44668 42M 9388 S N 0.0 8.4 0:00 matlab

5 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00.13 kswapd
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