kswapd running at 100% - Slowing down Machine
Esquivel, Vicente
Esquivelv at uhd.edu
Tue Apr 4 13:22:13 UTC 2006
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> We currently have a problem with one of our production Redhat
> machines running kernel 2.4.21-20.ELsmp. It is running really
> slow and i have noticed when doing a top the kswapd process
> is running at 100%. I have been running this machine now for
> over a year with no problems so i am not sure why we suddenly
> have this issue. I have read on the net that there are some
> bug fixes which address this issue but unfortunately we need
> to run at this version for software compatibility on the
> server. Is there a way of resolving this issue without
> upgrading the kernel?
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> Andrew Bridgeman
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It is a know issue with that kernel. Here is a link that will provide
you with some information about the bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132639
You can use their recommended fix or just update the kernel
Regards
Vince
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