kswapd

[Blackburn, Marvin]

David,
The previous erratta to RHSA-2005-043.html addresses the kswapd issue.
What was that bugzilla number? 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of David Ernst
> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 5:19 PM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: kswapd
> 
> We have a similar problem....  The only difference is we don't notice
> our kswapd running high the way everyone on that bugzilla talked about
> it.  Otherwise, it's just about identical... the (other) symptoms,
> what triggers the symptoms, etc.  
> 
> What's worse, we're running the 2.4.21-27.0.1.EL kernel.  I had
> trouble upgrading to the 2.4.21-27.0.2.EL kernel, so we're not using
> it yet, but from the announcement at
> http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-043.html doesn't suggest that
> it would address anything about this problem anyway.  Anyone else have
> similar experience?  
> 
> Does anyone know if this issue has ever been seen in 2.6.x kernels?  I
> see that RedHat announced RHEL4 today (or at least that's when I got
> the email) and perhaps we'll just upgrade to that rather than continue
> to beat our heads against walls...
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 08:00:53AM -0500, Blackburn, Marvin wrote:
> >We have this problem too.  It gets so bad that the system locks up.
> >The trouble with the fix is that some of our applications are not
> >certified with
> >the kernel recommended.
> >
> >Its strange -- this problem always recurs two weeks to the 
> day after a
> >reboot. 
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> >> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Cian Cullinan
> >> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 5:04 AM
> >> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> >> Subject: Re: kswapd
> >> 
> >> See 
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132639
> >> 
> >> It's a bug with kswapd. The report goes into a lot of 
> detail about the
> >> VM which went over my head, but the solution is to upgrade 
> your kernel
> >> to one with this fixed.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 15:07:19 -0800, Bhupinder Singh 
> >> <bsingh at digev.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi all:
> >> > Very often, a process kswapd takes control of 100% or more 
> >> of CPU and
> >> > stays that way for quite some time. Anybody know what is 
> >> causing it and
> >> > how to fix it. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> >> > Thanks.
> >> > Bhupinder
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