centos + kswapd0 error

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>> Hi all
>> 
>> I have a box with Centos 4 and qmail with all pathches. since Last month
i
>> have had twice the same problem. The process kswapd0 uses all my
resources
>> of CPU and RAM memory and the consequence is that my local queue grow up
and
>> the box go slow too.
>> 
>> The first time i guess the problem was the version of the kernel, so i
did
>> an upgrade form kernel.i686 2.6.9-5.0.3.EL to kernel.i686 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL
>> 
>> apparently the problem was solved but today the problem came again. The
>> following snapshot shows the situation:
>> 
>> 
>> top - 10:53:48 up 16 days, 20:05,  1 user,  load average: 119.27, 116.16,
>> 114.33
>> Tasks: 528 total,  13 running, 515 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
>> Cpu(s):  5.4% us, 89.4% sy,  0.0% ni,  0.3% id,  4.8% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.1%
si
>> Mem:   2075012k total,  2073404k used,     1608k free,    71056k buffers
>> Swap:  4192924k total,  4192924k used,        0k free,    36380k cached
>> 
>> PID    USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+     COMMAND
>> 60     root      17   0     0    0    0 D 75.4  0.0   585:22.79  kswapd0
>> 2164   root      15   0  1736  484  432 S 31.0  0.0   31:57.07
couriertcpd
>> 16334  vpopmail  19   0  2660  804  668 R 24.7  0.0   0:01.69    imapd
>> 2158   root      15   0  3264  488  432 S 23.4  0.0   1:17.51
couriertcpd
>> 32608  apache    16   0 21604 8440 3016 R 15.5  0.4   1:38.09    httpd
>> 15284  vpopmail  18   0  4384 1032  760 R 14.9  0.0   0:08.32
vdelivermail
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I really do not know what thing should i do for solve this problem
>> 
>> thanks in advance
>> 
>> Mario
>
>I think this bug is your problem:
>
>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=150971
>
>You can try the kernel at:
>
>http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/RHEL4/RPMS.kernel/
>
>(or I can give you version 2.6.9-6.37.EL that is in 4Update1 beta)

Hi Mr. Hughes

The kernel version 2.6.9-6.37.EL has known issues

Regards
Mario

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