Re: High CPU load with kswapd and heavy disk I/O

[Nuno Silva]

Hello!

Ken Savage wrote:
> On Tue August 12 2003 12:44, Nuno Silva wrote:

[..snip..]

> AFTER:
> -----------
>
>         total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
> Mem:  3710840832 2703040512 1007800320        0 427081728 522944512
> Swap: 2147467264 57257984 2090209280
> MemTotal:      3623868 kB
> MemFree:        984180 kB
> MemShared:           0 kB
> Buffers:        417072 kB


My guess is that this is the cause. LOWMEM pressure because of very 
large directories... Relating to this, linux-2.6.0-test3-mm1 has Ingo's 
4G/4G memory split. Can you try this kernel, enable 4G/4G feature, and 
report back?

Good luck,
Nuno Silva



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