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From: Nuno Silva <nuno.silva@vgertech.com>
To: Ken Savage <kens1835@shaw.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: High CPU load with kswapd and heavy disk I/O
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 00:49:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F397CED.6060006@vgertech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200308121323.49081.kens1835@shaw.ca>

Hello!

Ken Savage wrote:
> On Tue August 12 2003 12:44, Nuno Silva wrote:

[..snip..]

> 
> AFTER:
> -----------
> 
>         total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
> Mem:  3710840832 2703040512 1007800320        0 427081728 522944512
> Swap: 2147467264 57257984 2090209280
> MemTotal:      3623868 kB
> MemFree:        984180 kB
> MemShared:           0 kB
> Buffers:        417072 kB


My guess is that this is the cause. LOWMEM pressure because of very 
large directories... Relating to this, linux-2.6.0-test3-mm1 has Ingo's 
4G/4G memory split. Can you try this kernel, enable 4G/4G feature, and 
report back?

Good luck,
Nuno Silva




  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-12 23:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-12 18:36 High CPU load with kswapd and heavy disk I/O Ken Savage
2003-08-12 19:44 ` Nuno Silva
2003-08-12 20:23   ` Ken Savage
2003-08-12 23:49     ` Nuno Silva [this message]
2003-08-13  0:14       ` Ken Savage
2003-08-13 15:36         ` Nuno Silva
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-13 15:34 HABBINGA,ERIK (HP-Loveland,ex1)

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