From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262603AbUAZMH7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2004 07:07:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262355AbUAZMH7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2004 07:07:59 -0500 Received: from mpc-26.sohonet.co.uk ([193.203.82.251]:39145 "EHLO moving-picture.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262603AbUAZMH6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2004 07:07:58 -0500 Message-ID: <4015031C.F7CFA671@moving-picture.com> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:07:56 +0000 From: James Pearson Organization: Moving Picture Company X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; IRIX64 6.5 IP30) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Side effects of a kswapd ? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Disclaimer: This email and any attachments are confidential, may be legally X-Disclaimer: privileged and intended solely for the use of addressee. If you X-Disclaimer: are not the intended recipient of this message, any disclosure, X-Disclaimer: copying, distribution or any action taken in reliance on it is X-Disclaimer: strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received X-Disclaimer: this message in error, please notify the sender and delete all X-Disclaimer: copies from your system. X-Disclaimer: X-Disclaimer: Email may be susceptible to data corruption, interception and X-Disclaimer: unauthorised amendment, and we do not accept liability for any X-Disclaimer: such corruption, interception or amendment or the consequences X-Disclaimer: thereof. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have number of machines that have kswapd processes - I'm fairly sure what is causing this - it's an issue with autofs v4 and a 'VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. Self-destruct in 5 seconds Have a nice day...' problem. There are a few threads about this on the linux-nfs list - e.g. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=106332683300004&r=1&w=2 Using autofs v4.1.0 appears to fix this problem. However, I was wondering what would be the side effects of having a kswapd? - the box _appears_ to keep running fine (running heavy CPU/memory applications). Thanks James Pearson