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Re: Kswapd-problems (?)



On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Brian Schau wrote:

> PID USER     PRI  NI SIZE  RES SHRD STAT %CPU %MEM  TIME COMMAND
>   3 root       4 -12    0    0    0 RW<  99.9  0.0738:01 kswapd
> 
> Why does 'kswapd' use so much resources?    And why has it used so many
> resources during the night?

This is certainly a rare thing to happen. My best
guess would be that you ran out of virtual
memory and the system tried to go on anyway...

Some output from /bin/free, procinfo and vmstat
plus some info on what type of machine and
workload you have would be useful to determine
the exact cause of this problem.

Rik.
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