kswapd0 using 99.8 of CPU

Lee Braiden lee_b at digitalunleashed.com
Sun Sep 18 13:13:00 UTC 2005


On Sunday 18 September 2005 13:48, R Kimber wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 12:33:12 +0100
> Lee Braiden <lee_b at digitalunleashed.com> wrote:
> > On Sunday 18 September 2005 12:15, R Kimber wrote:
> > > Why does kswapd0 frequently use 99.8 of CPU ?  And what, if anything
> > > should I do about it?
> >
> > Because you're using too much memory, and the kernel swap daemon has
> > to swap
>
> I don't think that's the answer.  I have 2GB of memory. And gkrellm
> says 1801MB are free.  Swap usage is 0%.
>
> There must be another answer.

Oh, I guess not then, sorry :(

I, personally, can't think of much else it could be.  I think kswapd is also 
involved in caching, though.  Hopefully someone else will have better 
ideas :)

-- 
Lee Braiden
http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com
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