From: "Terje Fåberg" <terje_fb@yahoo.no>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.10: kswapd spins like crazy
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 12:54:46 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050203115446.5063.qmail@web51601.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1107427629.5611.13.camel@npiggin-nld.site>
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Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> skrev:
> Can you post about 10 seconds of `vmstat 1` output
> while this is happening?
>
> Also:
> `cat /proc/vmstat > pre ; sleep 10 ; cat
> /proc/vmstat > post`
> while this is happening, and send the pre and post
> files.
>
> cat /proc/meminfo also might be helpful.
You will find those attached.
> And compile a kernel with "magic sysrq" support,
> and get a couple of Alt+SysRq+M dumps (the output
> will be in dmesg).
The kernel is compiling right now, but I cannot
reboot this machine until six or seven o'clock
tonight (CET). I will report then.
Regards,
Terje
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galileo:~# vmstat 1
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
2 5 428692 4964 118492 320196 84 72 6560 696 1561 8993 40 60 0 0
5 3 428884 3392 118516 318960 140 368 6832 1172 1517 8563 40 60 0 0
5 3 429908 4888 120548 318092 108 1844 5812 2020 1498 7842 53 47 0 0
4 4 430076 3296 121876 318472 340 184 6900 604 1396 8502 43 57 0 0
5 3 430120 4776 121748 316820 80 440 6780 440 1391 8360 34 66 0 0
4 4 430112 4916 123016 317304 376 68 7056 440 1293 8852 23 77 0 0
4 7 430096 4916 123576 316468 348 60 7324 204 1233 8290 21 79 0 0
5 3 430032 14084 129040 316960 192 0 6664 464 1380 8403 24 76 0 0
4 4 430032 7044 135060 317516 244 0 6424 0 1166 8217 17 83 0 0
5 3 430064 4548 138072 317388 172 216 6364 216 1176 8312 17 83 0 0
2 3 430132 4856 139000 316860 252 156 6656 872 1311 8125 19 81 0 0
^C
galileo:~# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 646052 kB
MemFree: 3296 kB
Buffers: 156912 kB
Cached: 314876 kB
SwapCached: 47524 kB
Active: 92792 kB
Inactive: 447588 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 646052 kB
LowFree: 3296 kB
SwapTotal: 2101056 kB
SwapFree: 1661600 kB
Dirty: 12088 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
Mapped: 103476 kB
Slab: 30032 kB
CommitLimit: 2424080 kB
Committed_AS: 3125208 kB
PageTables: 8440 kB
VmallocTotal: 384980 kB
VmallocUsed: 7392 kB
VmallocChunk: 377500 kB
galileo:~# cat /proc/vmstat > pre ; sleep 10 ; cat /proc/vmstat > post
galileo:~# cat pre
nr_dirty 61
nr_writeback 138
nr_unstable 0
nr_page_table_pages 2118
nr_mapped 24903
nr_slab 7494
pgpgin 40072965
pgpgout 32683347
pswpin 707678
pswpout 491400
pgalloc_high 0
pgalloc_normal 289749372
pgalloc_dma 5185962
pgfree 294936222
pgactivate 7678427
pgdeactivate 7086934
pgfault 76930918
pgmajfault 422426
pgrefill_high 0
pgrefill_normal 63766162
pgrefill_dma 3133019
pgsteal_high 0
pgsteal_normal 11946755
pgsteal_dma 855413
pgscan_kswapd_high 0
pgscan_kswapd_normal 31430190
pgscan_kswapd_dma 2037500863
pgscan_direct_high 0
pgscan_direct_normal 1083423
pgscan_direct_dma 89251
pginodesteal 0
slabs_scanned 15591040
kswapd_steal 12527148
kswapd_inodesteal 2803439
pageoutrun 3511541
allocstall 6111
pgrotated 719114
galileo:~# cat post
nr_dirty 504
nr_writeback 38
nr_unstable 0
nr_page_table_pages 2093
nr_mapped 25652
nr_slab 7488
pgpgin 40106505
pgpgout 32695255
pswpin 710721
pswpout 491907
pgalloc_high 0
pgalloc_normal 289790611
pgalloc_dma 5185979
pgfree 294977468
pgactivate 7680721
pgdeactivate 7089056
pgfault 76933748
pgmajfault 423145
pgrefill_high 0
pgrefill_normal 63776342
pgrefill_dma 3133311
pgsteal_high 0
pgsteal_normal 11957164
pgsteal_dma 855422
pgscan_kswapd_high 0
pgscan_kswapd_normal 31443126
pgscan_kswapd_dma 2038597486
pgscan_direct_high 0
pgscan_direct_normal 1100385
pgscan_direct_dma 90604
pginodesteal 0
slabs_scanned 15596032
kswapd_steal 12531233
kswapd_inodesteal 2803526
pageoutrun 3511829
allocstall 6272
pgrotated 719582
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-03 11:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-03 10:29 2.6.10: kswapd spins like crazy Terje Fåberg
2005-02-03 10:47 ` Nick Piggin
2005-02-03 11:54 ` Terje Fåberg [this message]
2005-02-03 19:50 ` Terje Fåberg
2005-02-04 0:12 ` Nick Piggin
2005-02-04 0:56 ` Nick Piggin
2005-02-04 1:16 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-04 1:19 ` Nick Piggin
2005-02-04 10:26 ` Terje Fåberg
2005-02-04 17:26 ` Terje Fåberg
2005-02-04 22:18 ` Nick Piggin
2005-02-05 7:12 ` Terje Fåberg
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2005-02-04 16:16 Weathers, Norman R.
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