Re: pre7-6: kswapd problem returns

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Sat May 06 2000 - 18:23:00 EST


On Sat, 6 May 2000, Adam J. Richter wrote:

> On my system running linux-2.3.99-pre7-6 which has been up for
>almost nine hours, kswapd has accumulated over five and a half hours of
>CPU time, even though the machine has 512MB of RAM and should not be
>swapping. Even now, with no running processes on the machine, kswapd
>is running.

I pointed out where's the bug a few days ago (in linux-mm). It's because
the pgdat_list is not NULL terminated. It's one of the thing I fixed in
classzone-24, try it and your VM problem will disappear.

        ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.3/2.3.99-pre7-pre6/classzone-24.gz

Andrea

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