From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Schwab Subject: Re: kswapd0 bug Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 21:46:38 +0100 Message-ID: <874n2nz5n5.fsf@igel.home> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]:37132 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753862AbaCXUqk (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Mar 2014 16:46:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Thorsten Glaser's message of "Sat, 22 Mar 2014 11:41:00 +0000 (UTC)") Sender: linux-m68k-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org To: Thorsten Glaser Cc: debian-68k@lists.debian.org, linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org Thorsten Glaser writes: > I just had the kswapd0 bug: it using 49.9% CPU, dpkg-deb the other 49= =2E9% > (I=E2=80=99m just finishing building eglibc 2.18 in the background si= nce the > buildds are currently limited). > > This =E2=80=9Cfixed=E2=80=9D 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. --=20 Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4= ED5 "And now for something completely different."