From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271230AbTHLXrz (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 19:47:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271239AbTHLXrz (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 19:47:55 -0400 Received: from fep04-svc.mail.telepac.pt ([194.65.5.203]:14278 "EHLO fep04-svc.mail.telepac.pt") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271230AbTHLXry (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 19:47:54 -0400 Message-ID: <3F397CED.6060006@vgertech.com> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 00:49:01 +0100 From: Nuno Silva Organization: VGER, LDA User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030714 Debian/1.4-2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, pt MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ken Savage CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: High CPU load with kswapd and heavy disk I/O References: <200308121136.11979.kens1835@shaw.ca> <3F3943B9.7080700@vgertech.com> <200308121323.49081.kens1835@shaw.ca> In-Reply-To: <200308121323.49081.kens1835@shaw.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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