Re: [regression -next0117] What is kcompactd and why is he eating 100% of my cpu?

From: Valdis Klētnieks
Date: Tue Feb 16 2021 - 17:34:19 EST


On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 13:36:22 +0100, "Jason A. Donenfeld" said:

> Another anecdote: 5.11.0, 64 gigs of ram. If I run QEMU/KVM for a VM
> with 16 gigs at the same time as a VMware VM with 16 gigs of ram,
> kcompact goes wild and both VMs get really slow. The key here is running
> KVM at the same time as VMware.

Do things operated as expected if there are 2 KVM instances, or 2 VMware
instances?

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