Re: kswapd craziness round 2

["Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>]

On 03/08/2013 11:21 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 03/08/2013 07:42 AM, Hillf Danton wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 3:37 AM, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> wrote:
>>> On 03/01/2013 03:02 PM, Hillf Danton wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:02 AM, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Ok, no difference, kswap is still crazy. I'm attaching the output of
>>>>> "grep -vw '0' /proc/vmstat" if you see something there.
>>>>>
>>>> Thanks to you for test and data.
>>>>
>>>> Lets try to restore the deleted nap, then.
>>>
>>> Oh, it seems to be nice now:
>>> root       579  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Mar04   0:13 [kswapd0]
>>>
>> Double thanks.
> 
> There is one downside. I'm not sure whether that patch was the culprit.
> My Thunderbird is jerky when scrolling and lags while writing this
> message. The letters sometimes appear later than typed and in groups. Like
> I (kbd): My Thunder
> TB: My Thunder
> I (kbd): b-i-r-d
> TB: is silent
> I (kbd): still typing...
> TB: bird is
> 
> Perhaps it's not only TB.

I notice the same thunderbird issue on the much older 2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64
which I'd hoped would be fixed on upgrade :(

My Thunderbird is using 1957m virt, 722m RSS on my 3G system.
What are your corresponding mem values?

For reference:
http://marc.info/?t=130865025500001&r=1&w=2
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712019

thanks,
PA!draig.

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