From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Duraid Madina <duraid@octopus.com.au>,
linux-ia64@linuxia64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kswapd is having a party
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 17:40:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030818004026.GT32488@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030818003300.GS32488@holomorphy.com>
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:10:15AM +1000, Duraid Madina wrote:
>> Does anyone have _any_ idea what kswapd might actually be doing? I
>> checked: not a single page was swapped in our out througout the duration
>> of this test. Is there a chance that spinning on some lock (I have no
>> idea how LAM does its synchronization), or perhaps even just idling,
>> might be counted as kswapd0?
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 05:33:00PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> I'd look for dirty memory; kswapd does do some page cleaning, though
> pdflush is supposed to do most of it.
Also, please log vmstat and take regular snapshots of /proc/vmstat.
-- wli
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2003-08-17 23:10 kswapd is having a party Duraid Madina
2003-08-18 0:33 ` William Lee Irwin III
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