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From: "Jan Kundrát" <jkt@gentoo.org>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kswapd high CPU usage with no swap
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:13:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46F8DF55.2030905@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070924223444.62f0622d@bree.surriel.com>

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Rik van Riel wrote:
> How much memory did you have in "cached" when you looked
> with top (and no swap enabled) ?

Hi Rik,
it was pretty low number (several thousands, or maybe tens of thousands).

In the meanwhile, I've come across your patch [1] ("prevent kswapd from
freeing excessive amounts of lowmem") and applied it locally. I'll see
if it fixes my problem, but at a first glance, it seems that it might
actually slow other things down -- when I switch windows, konqueror's
screen redrawing seems to be pretty slow and I can see it progressing
from top to bottom...

[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/5/289

Cheers,
-jkt

-- 
cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth


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  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-25 10:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-25  0:13 kswapd high CPU usage with no swap Jan Kundrát
2007-09-25  2:34 ` Rik van Riel
2007-09-25 10:13   ` Jan Kundrát [this message]
2007-09-26  1:31     ` Rik van Riel
2007-09-26  7:27       ` Jan Kundrát
2007-09-26 15:25         ` Rik van Riel
2007-09-26 22:37           ` Jan Kundrát

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