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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: mgorman@techsingularity.net, vbabka@suse.cz, aarcange@redhat.com,
	rientjes@google.com, mhocko@kernel.org, zi.yan@cs.rutgers.edu,
	hannes@cmpxchg.org
Subject: [regression -next0117] What is kcompactd and why is he eating 100% of my cpu?
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 21:00:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190126200005.GB27513@amd> (raw)

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Hi!

With modern web, 100% CPU load is no longer uncommon, but this time
chromium is not to blame:

pavel@amd:/data/l/linux-next-32$ uname -a
Linux amd 5.0.0-rc2-next-20190117 #214 SMP Fri Jan 18 09:47:18 CET
2019 i686 GNU/Linux

top - 13:38:51 up  1:42, 16 users,  load average: 1.41, 1.93, 1.62
Tasks: 182 total,   3 running, 138 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s):  2.3 us, 57.8 sy,  0.0 ni, 39.9 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st
KiB Mem:   3020044 total,  2429420 used,   590624 free,    27468 buffers
KiB Swap:  2097148 total,        0 used,  2097148 free.  1924268 cached Mem

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND     
  608 root      20   0       0      0      0 R  99.6  0.0  11:34.38 kcompactd0  
 9782 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   7.9  0.0   0:59.02 kworker/0:+ 
 2971 root      20   0   46624  23076  13576 S   4.3  0.8   2:50.22 Xorg        



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             reply	other threads:[~2019-01-26 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-26 20:00 Pavel Machek [this message]
2019-01-27  2:56 ` [regression -next0117] What is kcompactd and why is he eating 100% of my cpu? valdis.kletnieks
2019-01-27 14:09   ` Mel Gorman
2019-01-27 14:15   ` Mel Gorman
2019-01-27 16:00     ` Pavel Machek
2019-01-27 21:36       ` valdis.kletnieks
2019-01-28  9:16         ` Jan Kara
2019-01-28 10:57           ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-01-28 11:03           ` Mel Gorman
2019-01-30  1:06           ` valdis.kletnieks
2019-01-30  4:29             ` valdis.kletnieks
2019-01-30 10:40               ` Mel Gorman
2021-01-25 18:54                 ` Tibor Bana
2021-01-26  8:52                   ` Valdis Klētnieks
2021-01-26  9:17                   ` Mel Gorman
2021-01-27 19:29                     ` Tibor Bana
2021-02-16 12:36                   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2021-02-16 22:33                     ` Valdis Klētnieks

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