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Re: kswapd eating CPU power ... any ideas why?



On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 06:19:01PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm working on a little project putting Debian on a CD. (Works great so
> far, have X up and running, most likely just a kernel recompile away
> from getting network etc. up too... (using tmpfs for rw directories, and
> some symlinks). A friend is figuring out RedHat... we will publish what
> we've done when we've got it all relatively nicely written out, if
> anyone is interested?)
> 
> Anyway, the problem I have is, top is showing 99.8% CPU usage by
> kswapd... any ideas why this might be? How can I find out what it is
> doing?

isn't it trying to swap to the CD? :-)
what does /proc/swap say?


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