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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>
Cc: debian-68k@lists.debian.org, linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kswapd0 bug
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 21:46:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874n2nz5n5.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSM.4.64L.1403221138430.7386@herc.mirbsd.org> (Thorsten Glaser's message of "Sat, 22 Mar 2014 11:41:00 +0000 (UTC)")

Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> writes:

> I just had the kswapd0 bug: it using 49.9% CPU, dpkg-deb the other 49.9%
> (I’m just finishing building eglibc 2.18 in the background since the
> buildds are currently limited).
>
> This “fixed” it:
>
> # echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
>
> The system was not swapping, but almost all free RAM was used up for
> the bugger cache, which I suspect triggered it.

I guess this suggests that there is something wrong with vm scanning?

Andreas.

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