RE: Kernel 2.6.8.1: swap storm of death - CFQ scheduler=culprit

Karl Vogel
2004-08-24T10:34:36Z

> > The tests of yesterday evening, did recover. So I'm
> guessing if I had
> > waited long enough the box would have recovered on the previous
> > tests. Looking at the vmstat from my previous tests, shows that the
> > box was low on memory (free/buff/cache are all very low):
> >
> > http://users.telenet.be/kvogel/vmstat-after-kill.txt
> >
> > That was probably why it was swapping like mad.
>
> Ok, so now I'm confused - tests on what kernel recovered?

2.6.8.1 with voluntary-preempt-P7

The same kernel as the one that didn't recover (waited 10 minutes,
after which it was still swapping like mad).

Ofcourse the test where it recovered was when nothing else was
running on the box (no X session, no KDE, just plain 'init 3').

Karl.