On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Kees Bakker wrote:
> With test1-ac17 I still have very bad performance, because
> kswapd eats almost all of the CPU cycles. The bare test1 was a
> little better, but not much.
>
> With ALT-scroll-lock I was able to see that it spends most of
> its time in wake_up and friends.
In wake_up .. interesting.
> Is there a way to tune kswapd behaviour on my machine? Or, are
> there certain things I can try?
It would be interesting to see some vmstat figures (and
other stuff) from your machine so we have a feel for
what's going on...
One thing that could be going on is that kswapd is simply
freeing too little pages at a time and gets woken up all
the time...
regards,
Rik
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